Editing Geneva Protocol (section)

==Chemical weapons prohibitions==
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!Year
!Name
!Effect
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|1675
|[[Strasbourg Agreement (1675)|Strasbourg Agreement]]
|The first international agreement limiting the use of chemical weapons, in this case, poison bullets.
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|1874
|[[Brussels Convention on the Law and Customs of War]]
|Prohibited the employment of poison or poisoned weapons (Never entered into force.)
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|1899
|[[Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907|1st Peace Conference at the Hague]]
|Signatories agreed to abstain from "the use of projectiles the object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases."
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|1907
|[[Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907|2nd Peace Conference at the Hague]]
|The Conference added the use of poison or poisoned weapons.
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|1919
|[[Treaty of Versailles]]
|Prohibited poison gas in Germany.
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|1922
|[[Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare]]
|Failed because France objected to clauses relating to submarine warfare.
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|1925
|Geneva Protocol
|Prohibited the "use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and "bacteriological methods" in international conflicts.
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|1972
|[[Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention]]
|No verification mechanism, negotiations for a protocol to make up this lack halted by USA in 2001.
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|1993
|[[Chemical Weapons Convention]]
|Comprehensive bans on development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons, with destruction timelines.
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|1998
|[[Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court]]
|Makes it a war crime to employ chemical weapons in international conflicts. ([[Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court|2010 amendment]] extends prohibition to internal conflicts.)
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