Between 1928 and 1991, the Soviet Union operated the largest biological weapons program in history. What does it look like today?

Leitenberg and Zilinskas' massive volume explores every dimension of the Soviet biological weapons program: its technical aspects, what U.S. and British intelligence knew about it, the role of Warsaw ...

In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

The claim was vehemently denied by the United States and Ukraine, with both warning the Russian disinformation campaign could be a prelude to Russia's use of chemical weapons.

Soviet scientists spent decades preparing for the second attack, concocting new kinds of biological weapons more lethal than any ever invented.

“ The Soviet Biological Weapons Program,” a 2012 book by Milton Leitenberg and Raymond Zilinskas that provides the most comprehensive public survey of Soviet bioweapons facilities, identifies ...

Video footage released by the Russian military gives a rare glimpse inside a secretive facility near Moscow that Washington has linked to an alleged ongoing Kremlin program to develop biological ...

Kirillov’s title is commander of the Russian Army’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Force, but his job goes far beyond that. Though few media outlets have noted it, Kirillov oversees ...

1989 A Soviet defector from Biopreparat, Vladimir Pasechnik, reveals the existence of a continuing offensive biological weapons program in the U.S.S.R. April 1991 ...

Inside the Russian biological weapons conspiracy theory United Nations — The U.N.'s 15-nation Security Council voted down on Wednesday a proposal by Russia to create a commission to investigate ...

Russia accused the United States of secretly supporting a biological weapons program in Ukraine at the U.N. Security Council meeting in March. The U.S. strongly denied the claims. There were ...

Additionally, even Russian sources have said the accusations concerning biological weapons labs are false -- a group of independent Russian scientists who reviewed the documents the Russian ...