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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

biological warfare

Ukrainian servicemen evacuate an elderly woman on a stretcher from the city of Irpin on March 13, 2022. (Aris Messinis / AFP)
March 13, 2022, 7:07 pm
US national security adviser says Putin is ‘lashing out,’ could use bioweapons
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warns that Russia ‘could plan chemical weapons operations’ after it spread baseless accusations that Ukraine is developing biological warfare
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A volunteer of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces walks on the debris of a car wash destroyed by a Russian bombing in Baryshivka, east of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
March 12, 2022, 8:14 am
Russian military pushes towards Kyiv as ‘unimaginable tragedy’ looms
Report says some Russian troops bringing ‘chem-bio suits’ amid warnings of possible false flag attack; Zelensky appeals to mothers of Russian troops: Don’t let your kids go to war
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami listens during the Conference on International Security in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2018. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)
March 16, 2021, 6:08 pm
Iran’s defense minister says country must ready for nuclear, chemical attacks
Amir Hatami warns ‘enemies of humanity’ will use any means to achieve war goals, including biological warfare
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, right, at the dedication ceremony for a new Magen David Adom emergency services dispatch center which is protected against missile, chemical, and biological attacks, February 25, 2019. (MDA spokesperson)
February 26, 2019, 11:12 am
Magen David Adom dedicates dispatch center that can withstand chemical attack
New reinforced facility designed to be able to send out first responders even if it comes under direct attack in wartime
By Stuart Winer
This image provided by the U.S. District Court in Maryland shows a photo of firearms and ammunition that was in the motion for detention pending trial in the case against Christopher Paul Hasson. Prosecutors say that Hasson, a Coast Guard lieutenant is a "domestic terrorist" (US District Court via AP)
February 21, 2019, 1:29 am
US Coast Guard officer arrested for white supremacist mass murder plot
Christopher Paul Hasson compiled hit list of prominent Democrats and media figures and mulled a biological attack; police seize powerful arsenal of weapons
By AFP
The building of a US laboratory in Georgia is shown in a picture released by the Russian Defense Ministry during a briefing in the ministry's headquarters in Moscow, Russia, October 4, 2018. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, via AP)
October 4, 2018, 11:37 pm
Russia claims US running secret biological weapons lab in Georgia
Moscow says Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research hides sinister activities behind peaceful facade; Pentagon dismisses ‘imaginative’ disinformation
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
This transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicts a number of smallpox virus virions (DC/ Dr. Fred Murphy; Sylvia Whitfield/Wikimedia Commons)
July 15, 2018, 12:20 am
FDA okays first drug to treat smallpox in case of terror attack
Though disease was eradicated worldwide by 1980, samples of virus were saved for research purposes, leaving the possibility it could be used as a biological weapon
By LINDA A. JOHNSON
Policemen enter an apartment building in Cologne, western Germany, on June 14, 2018 where a Tunisian suspected of trying to build a biological weapon was arrested two days before. (AFP Photo/dpa/Oliver Berg)
June 14, 2018, 8:18 pm
Tunisian held in Germany ‘sought to build biological weapon’
Suspect had processed castor beans to extract ricin, at 6,000 times more poisonous than cyanide, one of the most lethal toxins in the world
By AFP
A photomicrograph of Bacillus anthracis bacteria, the cause of the anthrax disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services/Wikipedia Commons)
December 20, 2017, 9:29 am
North Korea testing biological warheads for its missiles — report
Japanese newspaper says Pyongyang’s research focused on ensuring deadly anthrax spores will survive extreme heat during long-range missile strike
By Stuart Winer
The Justin Timberlake melon is safe, thanks to Beauty of Vegetables 'bug army' (Courtesy Ein Yahav)
September 2, 2014, 5:54 pm
Half-billion ‘bug soldiers’ to keep crops pest-free
Hungry ‘good’ insects eat the bugs that farmers would otherwise need pesticides to get rid of
By David Shamah
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