US adversaries have developed more advanced biological weapons programs, without prompting much attention from US ...

Imagine a country facing rising tensions with its neighbors. In a small research lab that looks no different from hundreds of others worldwide, scientists quietly tweak an ordinary influenza virus.

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, America’s strength in national security was measured in terms of military strength (or number of tanks, planes, ships, and troops). But in today’s world, a single line of malicious code ...

During the past 15 years, the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) of the Department of Defense (DOD) has carried out activities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and ...

The anthrax-laced letters mailed in the fall of 2001 infected twenty-three people and killed five—a toll that only hinted at the damage bioterrorism could cause. In a 2001 government exercise called ...

He is promoted to the rank of major in Japan’s Army Medical Corps and begins to advocate for a Japanese biological weapons program. 1931 Fildes edits a nine-volume treatise on bacteriology that is ...