The author proposes expanding U.S. cooperative threat reduction programs to address the threat from the Soviet Union's system to defeat bubonic plagure.

British scientists have made a crucial breakthrough in the war on terrorism by developing a vaccine to counter bubonic plague, the bacteria that caused the Black Death.

Dread of this horrible epidemic is a dim memory confined to history books. But antibiotic-resistant plague is alive and well. and if it is used as a weapon, no one will be safe.

New research suggests that Europeans have inherited a resistance to Aids because of the devastating effects of the bubonic plague.

British scientists have deciphered the genetic blueprint of bubonic plague, the fearsome microbe that killed one-third of medieval Europe and could still be a frightening biological weapon in the hands of modern-day terrorists. The new gene map could offer clues to vaccines and other drugs that could keep the disease in check and perhaps even neutralize its use as a weapon of mass destruction.

Scientists have decoded the genome of the bubonic plague bacterium -- a possible bio-weapon, as well as an endemic disease in some countries.