Correcting the Biden preparedness failure demands more than just good intentions today. Thankfully, the Trump team has taken ...

Vladimir Putin has spent years warning that advances in genetics could produce weapons more terrifying than the atomic bomb, ...

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 ...

The Autonomous Decontamination System, or ADS, would scrub vehicles, critical infrastructure and key terrain while allowing ...

For Britain, the front line of biological security is not a laboratory or a battlefield, but the NHS, the food system and the public’s trust in government. If those hold, biological threats fail. If ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research companies, has issued a stark warning about the misuse of powerful AI systems. He cautions ...

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 ...