Biological Warfare

Who would have thought that Gilead Studies neglected for so many decades would suddenly have gained so greatly in popularity? muses a fictional future historian in The Testaments, Margaret Atwoods sequel to The Handmaids Tale. It reads like a tongue-in-cheek…

Poisoner In Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer, September 2019, Henry Holt & Co., 368 pages In the 1962 film adaptation of Richard Condons The Manchurian Candidate, a diabolical North Korean doctor named Yen Lo t…

Eight workers were killed in the explosion at the Rheinmetall Denel Munitions factory in the Macassar area of Somerset West last year, and the building was demolished in the blast. Picture: Tracey Adams/African News Agency (ANA) Section 24 of South Africas C…

4th September 2019, 2:00 AM-3:30 AM GMT 3045 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, USA This week we will be reading a 960-page book about the Soviet bioweapons program. ...No, just kidding, although such a comprehensive book does exist (Amazon Link). Instead, we …

By John Lancaster and James P. Rathwell MD In March 1965, Dr. Henry Knowles Beecher of Harvard Medical School traveled to Michigan for a scientific conference. At the airport in Boston, he bumped into a colleague who was heading to the same event, and took t…

Today is the 239th day of 2019. There are 126 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1928: The Kellog-Briand Pact or Pact of Paris is established by which countries vow to solve conflicts by peaceful means. It is eventually signed by most of the world's n…

The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from the nations bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website where it was vulnerable to attacks by hackers for over a decade, according to government documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Times…

The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from the nation’s bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website where it was vulnerable to attacks by hackers for over a decade, according to government documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Time…

Ticks are vectors for all sorts of nasty germs, notably Lyme disease, the sixth-most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Decades after it was first identified, it's still ofte…

Is intelligence intelligent? This is the question that runs or, rather, leaps through the mind of the reader struggling with Christopher Andrews encyclopedic work The Secret World: A History of Intelligence (Yale). Andrew, who is a longtime history don at Cam…