Both the United States and Great Britain tested biological weapons during World War II, but for ethical reasons such tests were limited to animal subjects. Japanese medical officer Shiro Ishii had no ...

Q: What kinds of biological warfare did the Japanese Army carry out in China? A: Japan began research on bacteriological weapons in the 1920s. In April 1932 the Japanese Army set up a bacteriological ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Unit 731 was capable of producing around sixty pounds of plague agent in a few days, and the method of transmission mimicked that found in nature: plague-infested ...

As General Yoshijirō Umezu carefully studies the papers on his desk, his brow begins to furrow. The General Staff of the ...

As General Yoshijirō Umezu scans the proposal laid before him, he’s confronted with a plan as audacious as it is horrifying: massive submarines launching aircraft on a one-way mission to the U.S. West ...

Plans to employ bioweapons cannot help but seem especially short-sighted given the indiscriminate and unpredictable nature of diseases. If the attack at Bataan had been carried out, for example, ...

Q23: What kinds of biological warfare did the Japanese Army carry out in China? A: Japan began research on bacteriological weapons in the 1920s. In April 1932 the Japanese Army set up a ...