The AI security ecosystem is overly focused on preventing pandemic-level attacks, creating a dangerous blind spot.

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 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 ...

In 1979, a deadly anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk exposed one of the Soviet Union’s most closely guarded Cold War secrets.

This report offers a summary of the presentations from an international workshop, Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, held October 31 - November 3 ...

1940 The Japanese biological weapons complex Ping Fan begins operations. It employs some 3,000 personnel under Ishii's direction, working on a wide variety of biological agents, including bacteria ...

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 ...

Biological Weapon: Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the live example of how destructive a nuclear bomb can be. After witnessing the outcome of the atomic bomb, no nation has dared to use them. The United ...

It was at this compound that the U.S. government researched and produced offensive biological weapons from the 1940s until President Richard M. Nixon halted research in 1969. The Army continues to ...

This report offers a summary of the presentations from an international workshop, Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, held October 31 - November 3 ...