Jason Kale Clampit was sentenced to eight years in prison for making ricin, a biological weapon favored by assassins and terrorists.

In 1979, a deadly anthrax cloud swept over Sverdlovsk, killing dozens. This Soviet bio weapon leak remained hidden for years.

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

The start of the Cold War brought new foes and new fears for the officials running America’s biological weapons program. Determined to anticipate possible Soviet attacks, the U.S. staged more ...

A Winslow man was sentenced on Thursday in federal court after being arrested in 2024 for the possession or attempted manufacturing of the poison ricin, according to court documents.

Even before the Soviet Union tested its first atomic weapon in 1949 ... a Soviet atom bomb detonation in an American city -- or a biological or nerve gas attack -- it was unlikely unless Soviet ...

“This case involved an incredibly dangerous biological weapon,” said Clay Fowlkes, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. “The ricin in this case could have resulted in a ...