In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

There has been no sign such weapons have been used in the Ukraine conflict, but the construction of new labs at Sergiev Posad-6 is being closely watched by U.S. intelligence agencies and ...

In 1975, the Soviet government ratified the UN Biological Weapons Convention, even as it refused to recognize that it had, in effect, been working on the development of biological weapons.

Biological weapons are the “poor man’s atom bomb,” said Yong-Bee Lim, the deputy director of the Converging Risks Lab and Biosecurity Projects Manager at the Council on Strategic Risks.

The United Kingdom has imposed new sanctions on Russian individuals and an organization involved in the use and transfer of chemical weapons in Ukraine, the British government announced on July 7.

“SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”… ...

The Journal said that the Lawrence Livermore lab has considerable expertise on biological weapons and that its assessment drew on genomic analysis of the SARS-COV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19.

If the Biological Weapons Convention can’t be toughened because of diplomatic frictions, like-minded countries should at least agree on a set of best practices, as they’ve begun to do with AI.

Could AI Create Deadly Biological Weapons? Let’s Not Find Out. Powerful new models, combined with novel lab tools, could make it much easier to develop killer viruses.

Ukrainian servicemen help an elderly woman, in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022. Russia’s unsubstantiated theory that the U.S. has been operating biological weapons labs in ...