Browse this alphabetical list of the most commonly known biological and chemical agents. ... As effective weapons, they would need to be widely spread by a spray or explosion indoors.

The UK updated the list of individuals sanctioned over the use of chemical weapons on 7 July, adding two individuals and one ...

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The UK has expanded sanctions on the aggressor country russia for its use of chemical weapons in the war against Ukraine.The list of new restrictions was ...

But in the late 1960s, some high-profile mishaps linked to the US chemical and biological weapons programs — including a toxic cloud from a test of VX that killed or injured 6,000 sheep ...

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 ...

The use of prohibited chemical weapons by the Russian military had become "standardized and commonplace" in Ukraine, Dutch ...

Mankind has always been in battle with disease. And towards the end of the last century it looked as if the battle was being won. In 1980 The World Health Organization, under the leadership of D.A ...

The United Kingdom has imposed new sanctions on Russian individuals and an organization involved in the use and transfer of chemical weapons in Ukraine, the British government announced on July 7.

Editor's Note: Joshua Lederberg, chairman of The Scientist's Editorial Advisory Board, edited the book Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat, to be published this spring (May 1999) by The MIT Press.

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.