The key chemical and biological weapons believed to have been stockpiled by Iraq can cause agonising death in the smallest doses. They are as follows: ANTHRAX: An acute infectious disease caused ...

Knowing that the other side could retaliate in kind, chemical and biological weapons did not come into large-scale use in WWII. But there were horrible exceptions: In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded ...

The military noted that the enemy is deploying munitions such as K-51 and RG-VO, which are filled with hazardous chemicals ...

The former chemical weapons facility is now a military radar station. Operation Cauldron was a series of secret biological warfare trials in 1952. Scientists from Porton Down and the Royal Navy ...

In October, Russian troops used special ammunition loaded with dangerous chemicals 323 times in combat operations against the ...

Getty Images Russia, when it was part of the Soviet Union, controlled a massive biological weapons programme All of these so-called chemical agents can be used in warfare in artillery shells ...

Chemical and biological weapons pose a threat to international security. Their possession and use is prohibited by international treaties, but some states continue to maintain covert programmes. Our ...

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped Saddam Hussein build up his arsenal of deadly chemical and biological weapons, it was revealed last night. As an envoy from President Reagan 19 years ...

and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces. Kirillov is cited as ordering the deployment of chemical ...

and Biological Defense Forces claimed that Russia had destroyed all of its chemical weapons stockpiles in September 2017. Contrary to Russia’s assertion, the U.S. State Department argued in its ...

Russia's Radiological Chemical and Biological Defence troops will be subject to an assets freeze and travel ban.

The UK government on Tuesday sanctioned the chemical and biological arm of Russia's armed forces and its commander Igor Kirillov over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. Britain and ...