William C. Patrick III, 84, one of the chief scientists at the Army Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick and who was responsible for overseeing the military's top-secret weaponization of ...

George Washington had a problem in the winter of 1777. Smallpox was devastating the already undermanned Continental Army, and much-needed new recruits were being quarantined for a month as a ...

The government’s A.I. Security Institute, staffed by alumni from OpenAI and Google, is becoming a model for countries grappling with A.I.’s emerging risks. By Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur Both ...

There is a real threat of increased biological and chemical warfare after the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, warns the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a recent ...

The new facility will involve work on future "biological warfare" dangers says the government.

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This paper will discuss two vulnerability tests, neither of which could be talked about in an open forum until 1999, when the information became public. One of these was a large-scale aerosol test ...

What happens when science meets war? During World War II, Allied forces secretly transformed a peaceful Canadian island into a testing site for one of the most dangerous weapons imaginable—anthrax. In ...

The Joint Biological Tactical Detection System is ready to go into production. It’s been 20 years in the making, but the Army is about to get its first lightweight, low-cost, man-portable defense ...

Ashish K. Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, was a White House covid-19 response coordinator in the Biden administration. Matt Pottinger, deputy national security adviser in ...