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Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the ...

It remains the case that it is not illegal to ship DNA fragments that could be strung together to recreate an entire virus ...

Despite 6 years of international negotiation, the United States has rejected a Protocol to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The draft Protocol “will not enhance our confidence ...

Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will bring the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (Implementation) Bill, 2024 to a vote at a lower house sitting today?Monday. The bill has been introduced to give ...

"The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (Implementation) Bill, 2024," the legislation was introduced by Dr Shezra Mansab Ali Khan Kharal. The bill has been introduced to give an effect to the ...

TASS/. Russia proposed initiatives to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention (BTWC) in a "zero" report, adopted following the results of the last consultative meeting of the BTWC member states.

The Geneva Convention made an attempt to severely ... and Germany had large-scale biological weapons programs largely focusing on anthrax, botulinum toxin, plague, and other diseases.

He died a year before the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention that banned offensive biological weapons came into being. Gruinard Island remained contaminated until 1986, when British scientists ...

Our research on chemical and biological threats explores particular programmes of concern, as well as broader issues facing the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention.

The commission will have to report its recommendations for the Council by November 30, 2022, and inform the Convention ... there are no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons programs in Ukraine ...