Biological and chemical warfare is no stranger to American soil. Examples include: In 1763, British officers came up with a plan to distribute smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans at ...

The U.S. War Department releases a report on the nation's wartime biological weapons program, keeping many key details obscure. January 9, 1946: A Deal with Ishii ...

China’s biological warfare doctrine was developed, at least in part, to target deadly viruses at the United States, which Beijing perceives as its key impediment to its goals of becoming the ...

The film discusses the dangers of biological warfare (BW) and its potential impact on civilian populations, emphasizing the importance of public health systems in combating such threats. It ...

Although Americans have speculated on the issues of large-scale war and terrorism in the past, these issues have now become reality. One issue, the development of biological warfare, is banned by ...

Cite this: Biotechnology: Impact on Biological Warfare and Biodefense - Medscape - Jul 01, 2003. Abstract and Introduction Traditional and Genetically Modified BW Agents ...

Riley D. Housewright, a microbiologist who led the US biological warfare program during the Cuban missile crisis, died in Frederick, Maryland on January 11, at the age of 89. Housewright retired from ...