The development of biological weapons with reliable, predictable effects has proven difficult in the past. Generating militarily efficient and accurate weapons requires considerable skills and ...

It goes back far enough that militaries have developed weapons intended to overwhelm enemies and shift the balance of power on the battlefield.

In his address to the UN General Assembly, US president Donald Trump announced his intention to “lead an international effort to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention … by pioneering an AI ...

The world is a safer place thanks to the effective implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC). The convention, which was opened for signature in 1972, prohibits the ...

Little-noticed video footage reviewed by RFE/RL's Russian Service sheds light on a secretive military research center that is notorious for its role in the Soviet Union's biological weapons program ...

March 26 (UPI) --The U.S. State Department Wednesday commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement implemented in 1975 to stop the development and use of ...

Over the past decade, national and international scientific organizations have become increasingly engaged in considering how to respond to the biosecurity implications of developments in the life ...

This report offers a summary of the presentations from an international workshop, Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, held October 31 - November 3 ...

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists or ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is sticking to the U.S. refusal to negotiate monitoring of biological weapons, the top U.S. arms official said on Wednesday. But Ellen Tauscher, ...