The investment in Biopreparat reflected a Soviet calculus that biological agents could provide asymmetrical leverage against the West. In the depths of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched a ...
Vladimir Putin has spent years warning that advances in genetics could produce weapons more terrifying than the atomic bomb, ...
The center has live samples of Ebola and smallpox. Moscow -- A gas explosion shook a Soviet-era biological weapons lab in Siberia that houses samples of Ebola and smallpox on Monday. At least one ...
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 ...
It was July 4th, 1944 in London and the end of the war in Europe was finally in sight. The previous month, the Allies had liberated Rome and landed in France. In the east, the Soviet Army was rapidly ...
MOSCOW, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Russia supports a call by U.S. President Donald Trump for a comprehensive global ban on biological weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. Trump said in ...