In April of 1979, people from the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk began falling strangely ill with inexplicable symptoms. Soviet ...

What happens when science meets war? During World War II, Allied forces secretly transformed a peaceful Canadian island into a testing site for one of the most dangerous weapons imaginable—anthrax. In ...

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 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 ...

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 release of WWII-era military documents this year has given a boost to researchers digging into Japan's germ warfare program. Japan's government has never apologized for the atrocities.

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 ...

The latest stories and articles on Unit 731, a covert military unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, based in the Pingfang District of Harbin, Manchukuo, now Northeast China. Its primary mission was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tetramer Technologies was awarded a $12.5 million program to develop protective fabrics for soldiers. The new gear will ...