Under the UN Biological Weapons Convention, no country has the right to produce or stockpile biological weapons. Yet, according to experts, the Pentagon has been working to create and operate an ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Biological weapons are weapons of mass destruction (or mass casualty weapons, to be ...

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 development of biological weapons with reliable, predictable effects has proven difficult in the past. Generating militarily efficient and accurate weapons requires considerable skills and ...

A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. China’s military ...

"The prospect of non-State actors, including terrorist groups and their supporters, gaining access to and using weapons and materials of mass destruction is a serious threat to international peace and ...

While significant chemical and nuclear weapons agreements contain verification provisions, the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) does not. World governments have not discussed this topic within ...

Is the Defense Department still preparing to fight biological warfare as if it’s 1970? When preparing for biological warfare, most nations picture scenarios in which an enemy openly sprays traditional ...

As experiments escalated, the testing area expanded across counties, reaching Devon, Hampshire, and beyond. Microorganisms were released day and night, drifting inland while mobile teams collected ...

International treaties including the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997), Biological Weapons Convention (1975), Ottawa Treaty (1999), and Convention on Cluster Munitions (2010) banned weapons like ...