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

This timeline recounts the history of biological weapons, from 1763 to 2003 ... Other leading Japanese biological warfare scientists with responsibility for heinous crimes lead successful ...

Incidents of biological warfare have been documented in numerous ancient texts. More than 50 authors provide evidence that biological and chemical weapons saw action in historical battles around ...

Before the U.S. signed the U.N. Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, it had developed over 5,000 gallons of Q fever as a biological weapon. kondakov / iStock via Getty Images 12.

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.

Zimbabwe is stepping up its national security and commitment to international peace by introducing tough new legislation aimed at outlawing the use and ...

The biological weapons were, according to a microbiologist, designed to “confound diagnosis and frustrate treatment.” In 1972, the Soviet Union signed the Biological Weapons Convention — a ban.

For many decades, so have humans: The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II; both the U.S. and the Soviet Union stockpiled toxins during the Cold War, with the ...

For many decades, so have humans: The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II; both the US and the Soviet Union stockpiled toxins during the Cold War, with the ...