During the war, German scientists and military officials applied this knowledge in a widespread campaign of biological sabotage. Their target was livestock—the horses, mules, sheep, and cattle ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Tell me about the history of the U.S. biological weapons ... Patrick: In 1942, the United States initiated its biological warfare program with a commission headed up by a Dr. Merck of Merck ...

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

The United States faces a series of threats to its homeland. These emerging challenges come from missile proliferation in rogue states; the potential use by terrorists of chemical, biological, ...

A 1939 map of Japan's agricultural emigration to northeastern China, which is a national first-class cultural relic, was ...

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 ...

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