Today is Free Comic Book Day, and if you can’t make it to your local comic store, there’s one book that you can find online: Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History, written by Max Brooks, the ...

For biological warfare purposes, you'd typically want a N0 of zero in friendly forces and populations, and a low N0 in the target population is desirable so that the weapon can be targeted ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term 'biological warfare' is well-known. In this article, we delve into the details of its history, current status, and potential future.

It’s been 70 years since the beginning of the Korean War. For young adults in their twenties today, that’s ancient history. It is as distant to them as the 1905 Russo-Japanese War was to me ...

World War Two and after. During World War Two, British and American scientists investigated using smallpox as a biological weapon. However, because of the availability of a vaccine, they never ...

Russia and China have a history of bogus claims about U.S. biological warfare. Claims designed to weaken international resolve to sanction Russia for invading Ukraine are classic communist propaganda ...

Did mosquitoes inspire the idea of biological warfare in general? Up until the late-19th century, we didn't actually know what caused mosquito-borne diseases.

Accordingly, this may constitute biological warfare, especially when hospitals and healthcare workers are indiscriminately targeted, violating international rules of war. As the war grinds on, the ...

The prospect of chemical and biological warfare in this age of anthrax scares and WMD can feel — like the threat of nuclear Armageddon before ...