Little-noticed video footage reviewed by RFE/RL's Russian Service sheds light on a secretive military research center that is notorious for its role in the Soviet Union's biological weapons program ...

There isn't yet current proof that Tehran is developing or possesses such weapons. Iran is interested in chemical and biological weapons and has made some inquiries regarding the process of acquiring ...

As Japan’s war situation collapsed, planners considered an unprecedented submarine launched attack using biological weapons. Giant submarines were designed to carry aircraft loaded with plague ...

Is the Defense Department still preparing to fight biological warfare as if it’s 1970? When preparing for biological warfare, most nations picture scenarios in which an enemy openly sprays traditional ...

It was July 4th, 1944 in London and the end of the war in Europe was finally in sight. The previous month, the Allies had liberated Rome and landed in France. In the east, the Soviet Army was rapidly ...

"The prospect of non-State actors, including terrorist groups and their supporters, gaining access to and using weapons and materials of mass destruction is a serious threat to international peace and ...

In his address to the UN General Assembly, US president Donald Trump announced his intention to “lead an international effort to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention … by pioneering an AI ...

A comparison of cyber and biological weapons and the treatment of biological weapons in international law suggests that both the direct and indirect effects of cyber weapons should be considered when ...

The world is a safer place thanks to the effective implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC). The convention, which was opened for signature in 1972, prohibits the ...

He also admits that the Soviet Union had operated an offensive biological warfare program in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention. That same year Meselson leads a team of U.S. scientists on ...