Nuclear Disablement Team 2 earned the prestigious Maj. Gen. William L. Sibert Award for team or detachment during the U.S.

It’s been almost three decades since the Rage virus escaped from a biological weapons laboratory. Still living in a ...

Henry Garcia, 63, of Vero Beach was ordered detained following his arrest June 25 on a charge of “false information and hoax.

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 ...

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

The U.S. State Department Wednesday commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement implemented in 1975 to stop the development and use of the toxins.

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.

North Korea has been developing ‘poison pens’ and sprays as a part of their biological weapon programme, US officials have warned. The US intelligence have said that the Kim Jong Un-led ...

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 ...

OpenAI said its GPT-4 model provided "at most" a slight risk in its ability to help users create biological weapons, but warned that future models could be more helpful for "malicious actors." ...