A panel of experts has urged Russia and the United States to expand their cooperation on biological security issues.
A U.S. program to secure and catalog biological agents at former Soviet laboratories has moved forward quickly in recent years, with increased cooperation from five former Soviet republics speeding progress.
The author proposes expanding U.S. cooperative threat reduction programs to address the threat from the Soviet Union's system to defeat bubonic plagure.
The authors argue for increased funding for cooperative threat reduction programs to reduce the threat from Soviet-era biological weapon stockpiles.
US Senator Richard Lugar discusses the Nunn-Lugar expansion act which will expand the successful cooperative threat reduction program, enabling it to assist in the dismantling of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs anywhere in the world.
A two-part exclusive story in the Washington Post on the U.S.'s missed opportunity to secure the lethal remains of South Africa's top-secret chemical and biological weapons program.
The U.S. government has spent $230 million trying to build a Russian plant to destroy thousands of tons of deadly chemical munitions from the old Soviet arsenal. This month, unless Congress acts, the Pentagon will begin closing down the project without laying a single brick ? or eliminating a single weapon.
Russian officials have rebuffed a new U.S. attempt to pry loose key secrets from their former biological weapons program, including a genetically altered strain of anthrax bacteria that Pentagon scientists are eager to study and that Russia had earlier promised to deliver.
Both chambers of the US Congress have approved the allocation of funds to deal with the remaining chemical and bacteriological weapons on the Vozrozhdeniye Island in the Aral Sea.
The United States signed an agreement October 22 with Uzbekistan to clean up a heavily contaminated Soviet-era biological weapons complex on Vozrozhdeniye Island, located in the Aral Sea on the Uzbek-Kazakh border.