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Geneva ProtocolInternational agreement of 1925 designed to prohibit the use of poisonous gases, chemical weapons, and bacteriological methods of warfare. It came into force in 1928 but was not ratified by the USA until 1974. |
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So in 1925, most of the world's countries signed the Geneva Protocol, banning the use of chemical weapons. These bodies could likewise facilitate and encourage those States still with official reservations to the 1925 Geneva Protocol (3) prohibiting the use in war of chemical and biological weapons, such as retaining a "right" of retaliatory use of biological weapons, to withdraw them. In 1972, nearly half a century after the 1925 Geneva Protocol banned the use of biological weapons, international delegates began signing the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), all international treaty that further bans their development and possession, except for "prophylactic, protective, or peaceful purposes. |
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