As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in ...

Mr. DeMille had a cheery disposition that could mask his talent at concocting horrifying — and frequently riveting — ...

Technologies developed across multiple disciplines in the biological sciences will have a profound global impact and concurrently have the potential to revolutionize biological warfare by ...

Powerful new models, combined with novel lab tools, could make it much easier to develop killer viruses. The world should ...

A recent study by a Japanese scholar has shed new light on exposing the horrific crimes of human experiments committed by ...

Chemical and biological warfare isn't new. Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and longbows. Some examples: Unrestricted use of chemical agents caused 1 million of the 26 million ...

Irish photographer Dara McGrath documents British landscapes associated with chemical and biological warfare. His work, Project Cleansweep, takes its name from a 2011 Ministry of Defence report on ...

As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in London. Eisenhower was instructed to meet alone with the messenger, a mere ...

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 ...

For many decades, so have humans: The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II; both the U.S. and the Soviet Union stockpiled toxins during the Cold War ...

John von Neumann — mathematician, physicist and participant in the Manhattan Project — said: “For progress, there is no cure.