Treaties, Laws and Policy
The U.S. is party to several treaties which limit chemical weapons:
- Chemical Weapons Convention
- Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998
- Executive Order 11850
- Executive Order 13049
- Executive Order 13128
- Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)
- Washington Arms Conference Treaty (Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare. Washington, 6 February 1922.) - France prevented this treaty from coming into effect
- Geneva Protocol
- Public Law 99-145
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Chemical Weapons Topics
Famous quotes containing the words laws and/or policy:
“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant’s economy is a coarse symbol of the soul’s economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In considering the policy to be adopted for suppressing the insurrection, I have been anxious and careful that the inevitable conflict for this purpose shall not degenerate into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)