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 ...

RECENT repeated allegations that the United Nations has been using germs of disease as a weapon of warfare against man have brought the subject of biological warfare into prominence. This is one form ...

Gutted cars left in the wake of an air raid on the village of Bushiv, west of Kyiv, on March 4. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP) Perspective by Kenneth Osgood The U.N. Security Council recently convened an ...

War can be the cause of, and the perpetuation of, a public health emergency. The current Russian-Ukrainian conflict is no exception, and warrants a discussion of whether invading a country in the ...

Claas Kirchhelle is an assistant professor of the history of medicine at University College Dublin. Elaine Joy is a medical student at University College Dublin, Class of 2023. Spurious allegations of ...

The White House has stepped up warnings about the threat of a Russian chemical weapons attack in Ukraine, citing the country’s history of biological warfare in Syria and efforts to sow motives for ...

A recent essay in the Washington Post offers a stark reminder that the threat of state-sponsored biological terrorism remains an urgent and seriously underappreciated threat concern. This represents ...

The film discusses the dangers of biological warfare (BW) and its potential impact on civilian populations, emphasizing the importance of public health systems in combating such threats. It outlines ...

Vladimir Putin has spent years warning that advances in genetics could produce weapons more terrifying than the atomic bomb, casting visions of engineered soldiers and population‑targeted pathogens.

THE dark side of progress is man’s spectacular skill at devising better and better ways to kill other men. The nuclear bomb, unfortunately, is not the end of it. There is also chemical and biological ...

British soldiers, besieged by American Indian tribes during Pontiac’s Rebellion, give blankets infected with the smallpox virus to tribal representatives. Guards patrol the gates at Porton Down Germ ...