2001-11-20 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- The burgeoning black market in biological weapons and expertise could pose a critical threat to the United States -- perhaps one even more devastating than ...

Biological warfare ithe use of living organisms--pathogens and germs--which are alive and dangerous. Chemical warfare is the use of toxic compounds: Chemical agents are not contagious.

Accusations that epidemics or pandemics are "biological warfare" are not new. Humans rightly have an innate fear of disease. "This plague is a deliberate attack" is a trope that is thousands of ...

Debugging the details on biological warfare. April 7, 2017. Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings and Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings in FX's "The Americans." (Patrick Harbron/FX) ...

About the Program Watch NOVA's Bioterror: Tuesday, November 13 at 8:00 p.m. Go to letter from the producer On September 11, 2001, the world was shocked by the unprecedented attacks on New York ...

Since de Mussi’s work was re-discovered in a university library in Poland in 1842, researchers of weaponry, the plague, and biological warfare have picked up parts of its narrative. Look up “The Black ...

The Chinese military is building sophisticated biological weapons and small-scale electronic tools made with nanotechnology that could be used in covert warfare, a major study warns.

Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is a potential biological warfare agent of bioterrorism and poses the greatest threat to the world's public biosafety ...

The general was in charge of chemical and biological warfare in Russia's war on Ukraine, and sources in Ukraine's security service have confirmed to NPR that it was behind the assassination.