Experts on biological warfare say dangerous viruses, bacteria and toxins are widely available in nature, but rendering them capable of being used as weapons is a complex task that takes a degree ...

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 ...

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.

— -- Terrorists have demonstrated they're capable of carrying out unthinkable attacks of extreme devastation. Now some believe the United States should be on higher alert for a biological or ...

The novel coronavirus is not an ideal biological warfare agent, experts say, because its impact on the United States and adversaries alike cannot be controlled. But China refuses to help the world ...

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.

Although Americans have speculated on the issues of large-scale war and terrorism in the past, these issues have now become reality. One issue, the development of biological warfare, is banned by ...

Biological warfare, virus style A catalog of the ways viruses fight each other for control of a cell. John Timmer – Jan 12, 2017 9:39 am | 19 Viruses ...

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 ...

Biological Warfare. Q: How easy would it be for a terrorist to launch a biological attack? A: Experts say it remains very difficult to transform a deadly virus or bacterium into a weapon that can ...