In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

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 ...

Sep. 18—As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in London. Eisenhower was instructed to meet alone with the messenger, ...

A new technique for rapid, on-the-spot detection of dangerous biological substances could give a major boost to anti-terrorist operations worldwide. Harnessing the ability of coated metal particles to ...

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 ...

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said the uncertainty of another terror attack is the top threat against the United States. Ridge made the comment Monday during an interview with CNN. One ...

A recent essay in the Washington Post offers a stark reminder that the threat of state-sponsored biological terrorism remains an urgent and seriously underappreciated threat concern. This represents ...

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 ...

Calling all history buffs! We’re about to reveal the darker side of World War II, uncovering terrifying, spine-chilling facts ...

Although it's surfacing anew as a terrorist weapon, the deadly anthrax disease has plagued the world for centuries, with reports of it dating back to biblical times. Anthrax is blamed for several ...

Archaeologists have reconstructed the skeleton and DNA of the Norse “well man” of lore whose remains were thrown into a well, likely to poison a castle’s main water source during a military raid. The ...

At TRS College in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi cautioned about the rapidly evolving nature of warfare and security threats. He said the future will be marked ...