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 ...

William C. Patrick III, 84, one of the chief scientists at the Army Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick and who was responsible for overseeing the military's top-secret weaponization of ...

A new technique for rapid, on-the-spot detection of dangerous biological substances could give a major boost to anti-terrorist operations worldwide. Harnessing the ability of coated metal particles to ...

There’s no shortage of things that could end the world. But between climate change, risks from AI, and biological threats ...

Little-noticed video footage reviewed by RFE/RL's Russian Service sheds light on a secretive military research center that is notorious for its role in the Soviet Union's biological weapons program ...

The author, Till Baernighausen, professor and director of the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, has since 1992 examined and analyzed historical documents from Japan, the United States, Germany, ...

Archaeologists in Norway have confirmed that an ancient set of human remains known as the Well Man were intended to make the locals unwell. By Franz Lidz In the dying days of the 12th century, with ...

Archaeologists have reconstructed the skeleton and DNA of the Norse “well man” of lore whose remains were thrown into a well, likely to poison a castle’s main water source during a military raid. The ...

The FBI said yesterday it is focusing on about 30 U.S.-based biological warfare experts in its investigation of last year's anthrax attacks, and has searched the homes of more than two dozen in recent ...

A top Russian lieutenant general is dead, targeted in an assassination in Moscow. The general was in charge of chemical and biological warfare in Russia's war on Ukraine, and sources in Ukraine's ...

The Trump administration wants to be friends again with Russia. But the possibility of rapprochement does not seem to be moderating Russian behavior. Russian media outlets have recently mounted a ...