It comes as little surprise that the dream of many a warlord or government has been to harness disease as a weapon with which to destroy one’s enemies. If used effectively, a weaponised virus could ...

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 threat from biological weapons use by nations or terrorists is entering an era of potentially heightened risk, but the dimensions of the danger are not yet clear, a panel of experts said Friday.

When it went into force in 1975, the BWC was the first multilateral treaty to ban an entire class of weapons of mass destruction. Adherents commit not to develop, produce, stockpile, acquire ...

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While most nations have banned the use of biological weapons through the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, smallpox officially remains in freezers in the United States and Russia - and many ...

The Biological Weapons Convention, which bans all bioweapons, is completed and opened for signature. Seventy-nine nations immediately sign the treaty. December 1974 ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamic Republic, as the greatest victim of chemical weapons in contemporary ...

Biological weapons are designed and used to spread pathogens or toxins that can harm or kill humans, animals or plants. The consequences of their use can be severe and unpredictable, ...

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.

The Biological Weapons Convention had another problem: it did not constrain private groups and individuals from pursuing such weapons. In 1984, the Rajneesh religious movement, based in Oregon, ...

Biological and Chemical Weapons. Written by WebMD Editorial Contributors. Medically Reviewed by Shruthi N, MD on August 16, 2024. Category Definitions; 3 min read.