In a dark museum hall, a seven-year-old girl stared intently at a black-and-white image of corpses strewn haphazardly in a ...

Horrific World War II bunker where ... "It also highlights the ongoing legacy of Unit 731's atrocities and their impact on global efforts to prevent biological warfare," the Heilongjiang ...

Japan created Unit 731 as a medical engineering unit responsible for testing, producing and storing biological weapons, as well as using these on humans to test theories and develop vaccines and ...

Journalist looks into crimes of the Japanese army's Unit 731 'Shonen Corps' that conducted experiments on prisoners in WWII ...

An 83-minute video of Masakuni Kurumizawa's oral testimony was released by the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crimes ...

Chemical and biological warfare has had a long and lethal history in the U.S. In 1763, General Jeffrey Amherst, the British troop commander in the colonies, sent smallpox-infected blankets to 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.

In World War I, Germany used pathogens to attack horses and mules the Allies were using for transportation. In World War II, in occupied Manchuria, Japan's Unit 731 tested biological weapons on ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Biological Aspects of Warfare—II ” in SA Supplements Vol. 85 No. 2194supp (January 1918), p. 46 doi:10.1038 ...