1899 Hague convention

Montreal Convention extends Hague convention to others aviation crimes... 

During World War I, the US War Department investigated ricin for chemical warfare use (Audi et al, 2005). At that time it was being considered for use either as a toxic dust or as a coating for bullets and shrapnel. However, the toxic dust concept could not be adequately developed, and the coated bullet/shrapnel concept would violate the Hague Convention of 1899. The war ended before it was weaponized. 

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is the Federal agency responsible for the administration of these laws. The negotiation of the Hague Convention of 1911 and... 

Another major piece of federal legislation, die Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, was passed in 1914. Curiously, this law was passed not in response to domestic demand but rather as a consequence of the United States signing the Hague Convention of 1912, an... 

Records of poisonous chemicals being used to maim and kill date back to ancient Greek times, when pitch and sulfur were combined to make Greek Fire , which was launched at enemies in battle. Poisons were also used in medieval battles although their use was seen to betray the tenets of chivalrous conduct. The First Hague Convention at the end of the nineteenth century resulted in prohibition of the use of chemical weapons in war. This seemed to have little effect however, as the first time chemical weapons were used on a large scale was in World War I. 

Hahn wondered aloud whether Germany s use of gas would violate the Hague Convention. Haber told him it would not that France had already begun using gas—though ineffectually. (This untrue rumor had circulated widely on the German side.) More important, Haber told Hahn, innumerable human lives would be saved if the war could be ended more quickly in this way. ... 

Comite International de la Croix-Rouge Extracts from the Geneva and Hague Conventions (Geneva, August 1985)... 

The Second Hague Conference of 1907 attempted to codify what were regarded as a number of unwritten rules of warfare, although chemical warfare, in the modern sense, was not considered. Article XXIII of the 1907 Hague Convention regarding Laws and Customs of War on Land deals with a closely related issue ... 

Apart from this, it has been pointed out that tribesmen are not bound by the Hague Convention and they do not conform to its most elementary rules. .. 8... 

Attempts to outlaw the use of chemical weapons have been made for more than a century. The Brussels Declaration of 1874 prohibited the use of poisons and poisoned bullets during warfare, and signatories of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 additionally agreed... 

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