Washington Arms Conference

Early Twentieth Century Negotiations The Hague Conferences The Washington Arms Conference The 1925 Geneva Protocol... 

Although the new League of Nations concluded in 1920 that chemical warfare was no more cruel than any other method of warfare used by combatants, the Limitation of Arms Conference, held in Washington, D. C., in 1922, banned the use of poisonous gases except in retaliation. The United States ratified the limitation, but France declined to ratify the treaty and therefore it was never implemented. 

Bolton, John R., Undersecretary of State For Arms Control and International Security, The International Aspects of Terrorism And Weapons of Mass Destruction, Second Global Conference On Nuclear, Bio/Chem Terrorism Mitigation And Response, The Hudson Institute, Washington, DC Friday, November 1, 2002 as Released By The State Department and cited in Gilmore 2002. 

Jiang H, Wachs JP, and Duerstock BS, Integrated vision-based robotic arm interface for operators with upper limb mobility impairments, IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Seattle, Washington, DC, United States, June 24-26,2013. 

Anonymous, in "Transactions of the 28th VA-Armed Forces Pulmonary Disease Research Conference", VA Department of Medicine and Surgery, Central Office, Washington, p 96, (1969). 

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