Strasbourg Agreement (1675)

The Strasbourg Agreement of 27 August 1675 is the first international agreement banning the use of

The Hague Convention of 1899 also contained a provision that rejected the use of projectiles capable of diffusing asphyxiating or deleterious gases.^[3] The next major agreement on chemical weapons did not occur until the 1925 Geneva Protocol. Today, the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons is different from the use of poison as a method of warfare and is particularly noted by the International Committee of the Red Cross as existing independent of each other.^[4]

See also

• 1874 Brussels conference (no accord, but recommended banning the use of poisonous or poisoned weapons)
• Hague Declaration of 1899
  (outlawing "the use of projectiles the sole object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases.")
• 1919 Treaty of Versailles

References

• "Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention" Archived 2006-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Clarke, Robin (1968), We all Fall Down: The Prospect of Biological and Chemical Warfare (
  Penguin Press
  ).
• The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  ).

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