The German and Dutch intelligence services said Friday that Russia is increasing its use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.

The threat from biological weapons use by nations or terrorists is entering an era of potentially heightened risk, but the dimensions of the danger are not yet clear, a panel of experts said Friday.

Biological weapons are the “poor man’s atom bomb,” said Yong-Bee Lim, the deputy director of the Converging Risks Lab and Biosecurity Projects Manager at the Council on Strategic Risks.

Two University of Michigan affiliates will remain in jail for the time being, following related federal charges for allegedly bringing in biological “weapons.” Yunqing Jian, a research fellow at the ...

In 1975, the Soviet government ratified the UN Biological Weapons Convention, even as it refused to recognize that it had, in effect, been working on the development of biological weapons.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamic Republic, as the greatest victim of chemical weapons in contemporary ...

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The Biological Weapons Convention, which bans all bioweapons, is completed and opened for signature. Seventy-nine nations immediately sign the treaty. December 1974 ...

While most nations have banned the use of biological weapons through the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, smallpox officially remains in freezers in the United States and Russia - and many ...

OpenAI Head of Safety Systems Johannes Heidecke made the claim in an interview with Axios, saying that he anticipates its upcoming models will trigger what’s known as a “high-risk classification” ...

A OpenAI revealed the safety measures being taken in preparation for dangerous levels of biological weapons creation.