A war weapon used in World War One went on to become a key component in treating blood cancer with chemotherapy ...

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

The production of the movie about the unit, which is thought to have undertaken covert biological and chemical warfare research in China during World War II, was announced in August 2020.

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 ...

Russia has accused the United States of expanding biological warfare activities in Africa. The accusations were made by Russia's Deputy Chief of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection ...

In more than 750 secret operations, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Britons were subjected to ‘mock’ biological and chemical warfare attacks launched from aircraft, ships and road vehicles.

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 ...

Seiichi Morimura, who wrote a searing exposé of the Japanese Army’s secret biological warfare program in occupied China, describing how it forcibly infected thousands of prisoners with deadly ...

Greek myths are littered with biological warfare, from weapons tinged with poisonous Gorgons’ blood to the deadly arrows of Apollo and Artemis. Borrowing the destructive forces of nature was ...