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 ...

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 ...

Jean Pascal Zanders, a veteran scholar of weapons of mass destruction, has been looking into de Mussi’s Caffa claims as part of a project on the history of biological and chemical warfare. He argues ...

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 ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — In 1917, the United States formally entered World War I, joining the Allied Forces on the Western Front. As one of the first wars in modern history to usher in the ...

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 ...

Advances in biological research likely will permit development of a new class of advanced biological warfare (ABW) agents engineered to elicit novel effects. In addition, biotechnology will have ...

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