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

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

Despite 6 years of international negotiation, the United States has rejected a Protocol to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The draft Protocol “will not enhance our confidence ...

Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.

“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 ...

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

Fifty years ago, the international community took a historic step toward eliminating biological weapons. The entry into force on March 26, 1975, of the Convention on the Prohibition of the ...

Also in the 1930s, France, England, Canada, Japan, and Germany had large-scale biological weapons programs largely focusing on anthrax, botulinum toxin, plague, and other diseases. Knowing that ...

However, it is already possible to make a conclusion that the laboratories located in direct proximity from Russian borders worked on development of components of biological weapons," the diplomat ...