In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

Japan created Unit 731 as a medical engineering unit responsible for testing, producing and storing biological weapons, as ...

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

In the 1940s, with Britain at war again, Porton Down was charged with developing biological weapons that could be used against Nazi Germany to catastrophic effect, minimising actual direct combat ...

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 ...

A full roster of Japan's Unit 8604, obtained from the National Archives of Japan, was unveiled in China for the first time on ...

Horrific World War II bunker where Japanese scientists experimented on prisoners with biological weapons found by archaeologists, report says ...

Archaeologists have located an underground research facility where Japanese military scientists conducted “horrific biological weapon experiments” on human subjects during World War II in ...

World War II begins in Europe with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. September 19, 1939 In a speech, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler boasts of fearsome German weapons against which his ...

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 ...

Previously classified personnel rosters of lesser-known wartime bacteriological units deployed in China, hidden since the end of World War II, have been released, which will help researchers ...