“Not a lot” of soldiers are good at “at donning their mask in nine seconds,” Lt. Gen. Perry Wiggins, commander of U.S. Army North, told reporters Oct. 15 according to Air Force magazine.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 11, 2015) -- Chemical-biological protective gear worn by Army pilots and aircrews has evolved to improve survivability in flight. Engineers at the U.S. Army ...

In the fall of 2001, five people died after exposure to weapons-grade spores of the Bacillus anthracis bacterium — anthrax — delivered in postal letters. The crime, which remains unsolved, brought ...

U.S. Army Medical Corps Major Leon Fox publishes an article in the magazine ... Baldwin arrives in Maryland and becomes scientific director and administrator of the U.S. Army's biological warfare ...

Sep. 18—As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in London. Eisenhower was instructed to meet alone with the ...

Riley D. Housewright, a microbiologist who led the US biological warfare program during the Cuban missile crisis, died in Frederick, Maryland on January 11, at the age of 89. Housewright retired from ...

Detecting and identifying pathogens is a key part of defending against biological warfare. U.S. Army scientists used their expertise in microbiology to help identify what killed a red panda at the ...

Calls to address biological threats as a domain of warfare will largely fail for several reasons in particular, the tendency to conflate deliberate biological incidents and natural disease outbreaks.

As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in London. Eisenhower was instructed to meet alone with the messenger, a ...