Kentucky Leaders Celebrate End of Army's Chemical Weapons Destruction Program The milestone was reached in July, when workers destroyed the last rockets filled with chemical nerve agent that had been...
Government Should Pay Compensation for Secretive Cold War-Era Testing, St. Louis Victims Say The area of the testing in St. Louis was described in Army documents as “a densely populated slum district.”
Kentucky Chemical Weapons Disposal Program Nearly Done as US Eliminates Final Stockpiles The facility at the Blue Grass Army Depot is weeks away from eliminating the last of a stockpile of 51,000 M55 rockets with...
The US Military Just Sent Its First Biological Experiment to Space The vials containing Aspergillus Niger were prepared for space by the Naval Research Laboratory.
If Russia Uses a WMD in Ukraine, the Fallout Could Trigger a NATO Response, Key Lawmaker Says Ukraine is not a NATO member, but several of its neighbors, including Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, are.
Russia's False Ukraine Biolab Claims Challenge Pentagon and Spark Biden Warning The ongoing attack was the latest in Russia's info war, a subset of its invasion of Ukraine that aims to spin a web of lies...
The Next Major Battlefield Threat Facing US Troops May Be Undetectable U.S. military experts are voicing worries that combat units are ill-equipped to detect powerful new bioweapons.
Navy Vessels, B-1s Obliterate 3 Syrian Targets in Strike The strikes employed twice as many weapons used as in the response to a Syrian chemical attack last year.
The Military Is Developing a Vaccine to Stop a Bioterrorism Agent The government is funding a project to keep bioterrorists from spreading a pneumonia-like, often antibiotic-resistant disease...
Mail-In Ancestry DNA Kits May Help Enemy to Target You, Navy's Top Officer Says The Navy's top officer warned against using popular at-home ancestry DNA test kits this week.
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Marines Suffer Most Cases of 2 Life-Threatening Conditions Related to Exercise and Heat, Report Finds The April issue of the Defense Department's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, published last week, was focused entirely on...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...
Army Eliminates Online Training Requirement for Noncommissioned Officers, Saying It's Too Burdensome The Army has eliminated a significant part of its online training for enlisted troops -- a learning program that has drawn...
Wide-Ranging Veterans Bill Gets Agreement Between House and Senate The Department of Veterans Affairs caregiver program, the beleaguered electronic health records program, veteran homelessness...