The key chemical and biological weapons believed to have been stockpiled by Iraq can cause agonising death in the smallest doses. They are as follows: ANTHRAX: An acute infectious disease caused ...

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

Unfortunately, there will be no accountability for the killing of the American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi, Dr. Ramzy ...

Those viruses were on the list of potential agents ... How aggressively did the former Soviet Union pursue biological weapons? "It was a very extensive effort which involved thousands and ...

These data provide evidence that it is technologically feasible to disseminate biological agents from aircraft (or backpack sprayers, or truck-mounted foggers). [23,24,25,26,27] Forest protection ...

Researchers are divided on whether the rapid improvement in AI technologies in recent years makes bioterror or war more ...

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 ...

Nearly 120 current and former employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google's DeepMind and Meta have issued a statement in support ...

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

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 ...

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.