Powerful new models, combined with novel lab tools, could make it much easier to develop killer viruses. The world should ...

As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in ...

The much more apparent horrors of chemical warfare led ... climate of the Cold War. Both nations explored the use of hundreds of different bacteria, viruses, and biological toxins.

The start of the Cold War brought new foes and new fears ... tests aimed at assessing national vulnerabilities to biological warfare. From the Pentagon to the Pacific Ira Baldwin, Camp Detrick ...

The Cold War was a period of rapid technological advancement. Many technologies developed for military applications ...

Deadly germ warfare island abandoned by Soviets At the height of the Cold War both the US and Soviet Union researched lethal biological agents that could be weaponised. Russian geneticist Valery ...

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists or ...

Vektor was reportedly a Cold War biological weapons research centre ... viruses are making you ill BBC History: Smallpox and biological warfare Vektor has one of the world's largest collections ...

Mr. DeMille had a cheery disposition that could mask his talent at concocting horrifying — and frequently riveting — ...

The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II; both the U.S. and the Soviet Union stockpiled ...

As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in ...

More specific AI programs trained on biological data, known as biological design tools, are even more powerful. Over time, such programs could speed the development of entirely new pathogens with ...