The Government Accountability Office found and DHS officials acknowledged that DHS has not fully integrated and coordinated its chemical defense programs and activities. Keep Reading
Without a strategy and implementation plan, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, and DOD's laboratory facilities that currently produce and handle BSAT may be unclear about DOD's strategy to harmonize operations, GAO found. Keep Reading
Secretary Alex Azar says "biological threats of a manmade, accidental, or naturally occurring nature are very real and they're growing." Keep Reading
Australia plot "galvanized international attention in partner agencies in Europe and elsewhere to focus on this threat." Keep Reading
Nielsen started the office in December 2017, but legislation is needed to expand the office's mandate and authorization to cover the full scope of threats. Keep Reading
"After 9/11, we faced a centrally-directed terror threat. But today the threat is everywhere." Keep Reading
Amesbury couple "became victims as a result of the recklessness in which such a toxic nerve agent was disposed of," with one dying. Keep Reading
“We have seen this before when the Soviets irradiated the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the days of the Cold War,” expert says of findings. Keep Reading
Yazid Sufaat, 54, who helped set up a laboratory in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he tried to cultivate anthrax, has been jailed three times. Keep Reading
Outside the Geneva body, CRISPR’s use has raised ethical questions, but among UN members security ramifications dominated discussions. Keep Reading