Editing Biological warfare (section)

===World War I===
By 1900 the [[germ theory]] and advances in [[bacteriology]] brought a new level of sophistication to the techniques for possible use of [[bio-agent]]s in war. Biological sabotage in the form of [[anthrax]] and [[glanders]] was undertaken on behalf of the [[German Empire|Imperial German]] government during [[World War I]] (1914–1918), with indifferent results.<ref>Koenig, Robert (2006), ''The Fourth Horseman: One Man's Secret Campaign to Fight the Great War in America'', PublicAffairs.</ref> The [[Geneva Protocol]] of 1925 prohibited the first use of chemical and biological weapons against enemy nationals in international armed conflicts.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal|last1=Baxter|first1=R. R.|last2=Buergenthal|first2=Thomas|name-list-style=vanc|title=Legal Aspects of the Geneva Protocol of 1925|journal= The American Journal of International Law|date=28 March 2017|volume=64|issue=5|pages=853–879|doi=10.2307/2198921|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/legal-aspects-of-the-geneva-protocol-of-1925/26453DA22053FCBB08BB4A520FFE9964|jstor=2198921|s2cid=147499122|access-date=27 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027233302/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/legal-aspects-of-the-geneva-protocol-of-1925/26453DA22053FCBB08BB4A520FFE9964|archive-date=27 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>