Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition

The 1925 Geneva Protocol was actually the League of Nations Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. 

Many countries voted against the use of chemicals as weapons and signed the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gas, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare in 1925 at Geneva. Meanwhile, however, the development of poisonous chemicals to kill, incapacitate, or irritate enemy soldiers continued. During World War n, nerve agents such as tabun and... 

PROTOCOL FOR THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE IN WAR OF ASPHYXIATING, POISONOUS OR OTHER GASES, AND OF BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WARFARE, 1925 (GENEVA PROTOCOL OF 1925)... 

The Geneva Protocol of 1925 prohibited the first use of chemicals for wartime use. Since 1928, an international treaty has banned the use of chemical weapons but not their development and production. A multilateral treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), would require the destruction of chemical weapons and the means to produce them. The United States signed the convention in 1993 but has not ratified it as of July 1996. Earlier, the United States signed bilateral agreements with Russia aimed at destroying both countries chemical weapon stockpiles. 

Nevertheless, by 192. it was considered sufficiently feasible for the prohibition of bacteriological methods of warfare to be included within the scope of the Geneva Protocol. No nation at this... 

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