Biological Warfare

The report comes amid concerns that North Korea is readying itself for war Neha Dhillon , Foreign News Reporter Published: 21:18, 17 Apr 2024 Updated: 1:31, 18 Apr 2024 NORTH Korea is feared to be creating lethal viruses and bacteria as part of Kim Jong-un's biological warfare programme, according to…

For months, Elon Musk has been dropping decidedly unsubtle hints that he believes in the great replacement, a conspiracy theory that liberal elites are “importing” immigrants into the United States, Europe, and Australia to wage political and biological warfare against white people. In a contentious interview that aired last week…

Biological weapons may seem like relatively modern entrants into the bloody history of human conflict, and why not? The term itself wasn’t coined until the 20th century, entering the lexicon during the horrors of World War I. Its shorter synonym, bioweapon, didn’t even appear in dictionaries until the 1960s. Today,…

As far back as March 2020, Dr Meryl Nass, a board-certified internist and a biological warfare epidemiologist and anthrax expert, proposed that the pathogen we know today as “SARS-CoV-2” was likely made in the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab. BizNews spoke to Nass to discuss the basis of her lab…

North Korea accused the United States on Sunday of manufacturing biological weapons in Ukraine, echoing a Russian claim dismissed by the United Nations in March. Moscow ally Pyongyang in February said US policy was the "root cause of the Ukraine crisis", and this month formally recognised two self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatist…

Russia's baseless claims about secret American biological warfare labs in Ukraine are taking root in the U.S. too, uniting COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, QAnon adherents and some supporters of ex-President Donald Trump. Despite rebuttals from independent scientists, Ukrainian leaders and officials at the White House and Pentagon, the online popularity of…

Few allegations are as damaging and difficult to counter as accusing somebody of deliberately spreading a disease. Unfortunately, global events have led to a distinct uptick in such accusations. Earlier this week, the White House warned that Russia could be planning a chemical attack in Ukraine. And Russia’s Foreign Ministry…

War can be the cause of, and the perpetuation of, a public health emergency. The current Russian-Ukrainian conflict is no exception, and warrants a discussion of whether invading a country in the midst of a global pandemic constitutes an act of biological warfare. A look back in history can help…

Like the Enigma, the HX-63 was an electromechanical cipher system known as a rotor machine. It was the only electromechanical rotor machine ever built by CAG, and it was much more advanced and secure than even the famous Enigmas. In fact, it was arguably the most secure rotor machine ever…

The term “Stockholm syndrome” comes from a 1973 bank heist that started out perfectly normally. An experienced robber named Jan-Erik Olsson entered Kreditbanken in Norrmalmstorg square, Stockholm, wearing a disguise, and demanded money at gunpoint. Police arrived on the scene quickly, and Olsson reacted by taking four bank employees hostage.…