Editing Arms control (section)

===19th century===
The 1817 [[Rush–Bagot Treaty]] between the United States and the United Kingdom was the first arms control treaty of what can be considered the modern industrial era, leading to the demilitarization of the [[Great Lakes]] and [[Lake Champlain]] region of North America.<ref>{{cite web |title=British-American Diplomacy Exchange of Notes Relative to Naval Forces on the American Lakes |url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/br1817m.asp |work=The Avalon Project |publisher=Lillian Goldman Law Library |access-date=16 May 2012}}</ref>  This was followed by the [[Treaty of Washington (1871)|1871 Treaty of Washington]] which led to total demilitarization.

The industrial revolution led to the increasing mechanization of warfare, as well as rapid advances in the development of firearms; the increased potential of devastation (which was later seen in the battlefields of World War I) led to [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II of Russia]] calling together the leaders of 26 nations for the [[First Hague Conference]] in 1899. The Conference led to the signing of the [[Hague Convention of 1899]] that led to rules of declaring and conducting warfare as well as the use of modern weaponry, and also led to the setting up of the [[Permanent Court of Arbitration]].