In both the popular imagination and among lawmakers and national security experts, there exists the belief that with sufficient motivation and material resource

Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer existing organisms and to potentially create novel ones not found in

"Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were the first weapon prohibited by an international treaty, yet the proliferation of

This publication gives a history of biological warfare (BW) from the prehistoric period through the present, with a section on the future of BW. The publication

Until the events of September 11 and the anthrax attacks of 2001, biological weapons had never been a major public concern in the United States. Today, the poss