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Mosquito Wars: Secret Bioweapons Development In Nazi Germany

(Science 2.0) The Nazis studied everything to gain an advantage. Those stories about mysticism and artifacts aren’t wrong, and the advanced weapons projects are well known, that is why US President Harry Truman authorized “Operation Paperclip” to recruit their scientists and engineers, rather than just kidnapping them the way Communist leaders in the USSR did.  Read More »

Information On US Bioweapons Tests In Japan Met With Ambivalent Reaction

(Eurasia Review) Information about the US conducting field experiments of biological weapons in the Japanese island of Okinawa in early 1960s once again attracted the attention of international politicians and experts to the problem of bioterrorism, and provoked mixed reaction in the world. According to Japan’s leading news network Kyodo News that obtained US documents,  Read More »

The Biohacker: A Threat to National Security

(ISN) The ability of non-scientists to create and deploy biological weapons represents the emergence of a new threat – the “biohacker.” As John Wikswo and others see it, it’s time to improve our detection and disruption capabilities if we hope to keep this next-step nemesis in check.

The next pandemic could be downloaded from the internet

(Phys Org) Last October, scientists in California sequenced the DNA for the “type H” botulinum toxin. One gram of this toxin would be sufficient to kill half a billion people, making it the deadliest substance yet discovered – with no antidote. The DNA sequence was not placed on public databases, marking the first time genetic  Read More »

LaBelle man accused of selling deadly toxin

(Tampa Bay Times) A man left a McDonald’s bag in the weeds at an Interstate 75 rest stop outside Fort Myers last week. For this, he collected $1,500. Inside, buried in two candles, were two vials of the deadly toxin abrin, federal authorities allege. The man, identified as 19-year-old Jesse William Korff of LaBelle, appeared  Read More »

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