A recent project asked what the telltale signs of a bioweapons program would be? There are gaps in the information members of ...

It comes as little surprise that the dream of many a warlord or government has been to harness disease as a weapon with which ...

The Chinese military is building sophisticated biological weapons and small-scale electronic tools made with nanotechnology that could be used in covert warfare, a major study warns. “China’s ...

Dugway Proving Ground is a sprawling army base in remote Utah. It has a checkered past of exposing US troops to weaponized pathogens and accidentally releasing a deadly nerve agent in 1968. Despite ...

What happens when science meets war? During World War II, Allied forces secretly transformed a peaceful Canadian island into ...

Editor's Note: Joshua Lederberg, chairman of The Scientist's Editorial Advisory Board, edited the book Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat, to be published this spring (May 1999) by The MIT Press.

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 ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Monday for stronger efforts to protect the world against biological weapons, which he said pose a growing threat due to ...

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 ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the ...