Biological Weapons

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Seized Islamic State Laptop Shows ISIS Plans to Weaponize the Bubonic Plague

To further their medieval fantasy larping that is bringing terror down upon the people of northern Iraq and eastern Syria, a recently seized ISIS laptop shows that the radical group wants to bring back the black death in a biological weapon attack. A laptop seized from Tunisian-born Islamic State fighter Muhammed S. Abu Ali show detailed […]

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The Juche Dynasty: North Korea and the Heirs of Kim Il-sung

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s first speech to the public has drawn the hermit kingdom back into the spotlight with a focus on his youth and deadly nuclear arsenal. Propaganda in North Korea has raised the youngest Kim to the heights of supreme status shared only by his father, the late Kim Jong-il, and grandfather, the […]

An Oft Forgotten Threat: North Korea’s Chemical and Biological Weapons.

International attention is often focused on nuclear weapons development. Whether it is Iran or North Korea, the common concern typically centers around this very specific type of weapon of mass destruction, even when considering the threats posed to domestic security by terrorism. Chemical based weapons (CBW) and biological weapons (BW) pose as much as a […]