Geneva Protocol

In addition to the prohibitions provided by special conventions, it is especially forbidden to employ poison or poison weapons.

Morris himself says the campaign violated the 1925 Geneva Protocol against bacteriological warfare.

Whether that treaty bound a militia that was not yet a state is a lawyer's point.

The moral norm is older than any signature.

It causes severe respiratory distress and eye irritation, making it highly effective at incapacitating and inducing panic among those exposed.

As of 1925, the Geneva Protocol made the use of chemical weapons banned under international law and, in turn, a war crime.

Thanks, Howard.

But back to the accidental mixture in the Buffalo Wild Wing's kitchen.

And the mustard gas was soon followed by an even more deadly substance, a nerve agent known as tabun.

Chemical weapons had been deployed by all sides during World War I, but their use in battle was then banned by the Geneva Protocol of 1925.

And even during the devastation of World War II, stockpiles of poison gas and other chemical weapons remained almost entirely unused.

Still, when it emerged that Iraq had broken the protocol and deployed these deadly weapons, the international community took no decisive action.

You know, they say it's for defense or research, but it turns out the potential for weaponizing this stuff is just too promising.

Yeah, so under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, uh, Hitler wasn't allowed to use chemical or biological weapons during World War II.

But, you know, like we say, we can on paper say, "Yeah, of course we're gonna follow the, the, you know, rules of engagement." But behind closed doors, he had folks working around the clock to, uh, study the same thing that we're talking about in the United States, weaponization of mosquitoes and fleas.

Right.

And that's related,

because the fact that there were chemical weapons and then the Geneva Protocol comes along in 1925 means that there's all this stock And so they started selling it to law enforcement.

And so you can go back, and I'm not, this is, Portland got it much later, but in terms of nationally.

So it's old