Despite improvements in the international control over chemical and biological weapons, there were some disturbing developments in 1998 as well, underlining the pressing need for the ...

Knowing that the other side could retaliate in kind, chemical and biological weapons did not come into large-scale use in WWII. But there were horrible exceptions: In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded ...

VO, which are loaded with hazardous chemicals that are used for counter-riot operations and are prohibited as weapons of war, ...

New construction at a military research site near Moscow reveals a specialized laboratory complex designed to research and handle deadly pathogens, experts say.

The military noted that the enemy is deploying munitions such as K-51 and RG-VO, which are filled with hazardous chemicals ...

The former chemical weapons facility is now a military radar station. Operation Cauldron was a series of secret biological warfare trials in 1952. Scientists from Porton Down and the Royal Navy ...

A former U.S. Army research biologist was sentenced to 51 months in prison for conspiring to commit bribery at the Aberdeen ...

(Sgt. Luke Michalski/U.S. Army) Daring moves by U.S. adversaries foreshadow the return of sinister nuclear, chemical or biological weapons as technological advances promise to bring new tools of ...

In October, Russian troops used special ammunition loaded with dangerous chemicals 323 times in combat operations against the ...

and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces. Kirillov is cited as ordering the deployment of chemical ...

Russia's Radiological Chemical and Biological Defence troops will be subject to an assets freeze and travel ban.

The key chemical and biological weapons believed to have been stockpiled by Iraq can cause agonising death in the smallest doses. They are as follows: ANTHRAX: An acute infectious disease caused ...