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Geneva Protocol

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  • Are certain cyber weapons analogous to weapons banned by the Geneva Protocol?

    Franz-Stefan Gady: From the Middle Ages to the Cyber Age: Non-State Actors Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

  • President Nixon also announced that, after nearly fifty years of US recalcitrance, he would seek Senate agreement to US ratification of the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use in war of "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and of "bacteriological means of warfare."

    Inaccrochable 2009

  • In doing so, it violated the 1925 Geneva Protocol on chemical weapons, although Iraq's gassing of its Kurds and its own people was not technically in violation of the Protocol, as there was no expectation that a signatory country would ever gas its own citizens.

    Melody Moezzi: The Debris of Dual Containment 2009

  • The Geneva Protocol of 1925 bars the use of poisonous weapons.

    To The Victors Go The Trials 2008

  • Unconcerned by these violations of the Geneva Protocol, the Reagan administration provided intelligence used by Iraq to calibrate its attacks.

    War Without Win: A White Paper On Iran 2007

  • These crimes include torture of prisoners, authorized by former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and White House lawyers; the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas; and the firing of depleted uranium shells --- this last also a violation of the Geneva Protocol of 1925.

    Many Americans Don't Realize Iraq War Is Illegal 2007

  • The British supported the idea as a replacement for the failed Geneva Protocol, and Aristide Briand, who became the French foreign minister in April 1925, accepted the suggestion on the condition that Germany join the League.

    1924 2001

  • After the war in 1928, the Geneva Protocol prohibited gas and bacterial warfare.

    CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2001 2001

  • The Geneva Protocol for pacific settlement of international disputes was an attempt to strengthen international institutions and overcome the problems caused by the absence of the U.S.,

    1924, March 3 2001

  • In the aftermath of the terrible casualties caused by poison gas in World War I, the Geneva Protocol banned the use in war of chemical and biological weapons.

    Statement By The President On Geneva Protocol ITY National Archives 2000

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