Biological Warfare

Bertil Lintner Security, Asia They can kill. North Korea's Chemical Weapons: The Real Threat the World Should Fear? After the Kuala Lumpur attack, Raymond Zilinskas, a chemical and biological nonproliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute of Internat…

Komodo dragons are wonderful beasts and I simply love their majesty. I know they’re plain weird, using both venom and biological warfare to hunt. You got to give it to an animal whose hunting strategy is : bite once and wait for a week until it drops dead. ©…

Under Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy, PLA General Hospital has emerged as a leader in gene-editing research. We may be on the verge of a brave new world indeed. Todays advances in biotechnology and genetic engineering have exciting applications in…

Last month, the U.S. Department of State released a video addressed to the people of Iran. In the video, Trump administration official Brian Hook claims that it is a myth that sanctions target Irans access to medicine. For more than a decade, my fellow Irania…

On August 14, 1945, Japans Emperor Hirohito issued a royal proclamation. It was actually a surrender notice: all Japanese land, sea, and aerial military units were to cease hostilities immediately and comply with all Allied authorities in terms of surrender. …

US Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) continues to urge the Pentagon to investigate whether or not the US Department of Defense experimented between 1950 and 1975 with ticks to use Lyme disease as a biological weapon, which the American public may have been ex…

A lawmaker who wants the Pentagon to investigate whether military biological weapons experiments with ticks cause Lyme disease insists he is not spreading conspiracy theories. "Why wouldn't we want to know?" Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) told Task & Purpose.…

Jack is thinking about things at a different pace from the rest of us, says Greg Kidd, who has known Jack Dorsey, now 42, since Dorsey was 19. Jacks pace is slower.Its an odd thing to say about one of the only two men in history to have ever simultaneously…

Lawmakers are putting more scrutiny on a new biological warfare detection system in the U.S. TOP STORIES Our Line of Biodefense If terrorists deployed airborne anthrax or other infectious agents in the U.S., could the federal government effectively detect …

In a table-top pandemic exercise at Johns Hopkins University last year, a pathogen based on the emerging Nipah virus was released by fictional extremists, killing 150 million people. A less apocalyptic scenario mapped out by a blue-ribbon U.S. panel envision…