Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock ...

It's crucial that NATO nations quantify their biological defense activities and count them toward NATO's 3.5% core defense ...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC) "is developing biological and chemical warheads for the country's long-range ...

Guest Opinion. Weapons of mass destruction have traditionally been characterized by the acronym “CBRN” , but WMDs can also ...

The investment in Biopreparat reflected a Soviet calculus that biological agents could provide asymmetrical leverage against the West. In the depths of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched a ...

Oct. 5 -- For combatants who lack the money to spend on high-tech killing instruments, biological weapons offer grisly appeal. They are cheap, easy to make, and simple to conceal — and, since Sept. 11 ...

A joint hazard assessment team member takes hazmat readings in a simulated hot zone during Kauai County Exercise 2017 at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, on Aug. 29, 2017. (Hawaii ...

The threat from biological weapons use by nations or terrorists is entering an era of potentially heightened risk, but the dimensions of the danger are not yet clear, a panel of experts said Friday.

On Aug. 17, the Department of Defense released its updated Biodefense Posture Review designed to achieve “a resilient total force that deters the use of bioweapons, rapidly responds to natural ...

As Netanyahu meets Trump, intelligence suggests Iran accelerating chemical weapons work while facing unprecedented domestic ...

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists or ...

AI can now create genome viruses in laboratories and redesign toxins to evade controls, raising biosafety alert and rise of ...