The Chinese attempts this year to smuggle pathogens may be only the latest incidents in a Chinese campaign to bring down ...

Click here to see which biological weapons the government is worried about. Click here to see our detailed methodology. Kerry Hargrove / iStock via Getty Images. 25. Hantavirus ...

While chemical and nuclear weapons treaties have systems to verify compliance, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), a global pact banning bioweapons, does not. Now, as technologies such as genome ...

Editor's Note: Joshua Lederberg, chairman of The Scientist's Editorial Advisory Board, edited the book Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat, to be published this spring (May 1999) by The MIT Press.

The Japanese biological weapons complex Ping Fan begins operations. It employs some 3,000 personnel under Ishii's direction, working on a wide variety of biological agents, including bacteria that ...

Mankind has always been in battle with disease. And towards the end of the last century it looked as if the battle was being won. In 1980 The World Health Organization, under the leadership of D.A ...

But in the late 1960s, some high-profile mishaps linked to the US chemical and biological weapons programs — including a toxic cloud from a test of VX that killed or injured 6,000 sheep ...

Browse this alphabetical list of the most commonly known biological and chemical agents. ... As effective weapons, they would need to be widely spread by a spray or explosion indoors.

The preamble goes on to state that the use of biological weapons would be "repugnant to the conscience of mankind." As of May 2022, 184 states have ratified or acceded to the BWC.

Vietnam on financial grey list over weapons-proliferation risks. By Francesco Guarascio. June 24, 2023 5:13 AM UTC Updated June 24, 2023 ... chemical or biological weapons. ...