The U.S. State Department Wednesday commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement ...

The world came together 50 years ago to ban biological weapons and in today’s volatile geopolitical climate we can ill-afford ...

Jason Kale Clampit was sentenced to eight years in prison for making ricin, a biological weapon favored by assassins and ...

In 1979, a deadly anthrax cloud swept over Sverdlovsk, killing dozens. This Soviet bio weapon leak remained hidden for years.

The 10 states that have neither signed nor ratified the BWC are Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Israel, Kiribati, ...

Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the ...

The key chemical and biological weapons believed to have been stockpiled by Iraq can cause agonising death in the smallest doses. They are as follows: ANTHRAX: An acute infectious disease caused ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

“This case involved an incredibly dangerous biological weapon,” said Clay Fowlkes, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. “The ricin in this case could have resulted in a ...