chemical weapons ban
Toxic arms treaty
A chemical weapons ban is a legal prohibition on the production, stockpiling, and use of toxic chemical agents in warfare.
The phrase most often refers to the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, an international treaty signed by most nations: Syria faced international condemnation for violating the chemical weapons ban.
Such bans emerged from the horrors of poison gas in World War I.
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- GenevaSwiss seat of diplomacy
- mustard gasBlistering chemical warfare agent
- sarinOrganophosphate chemical weapon
- nerve agentWeaponized neurotoxin
poison gas · disarmament · arms control · protocol · international law · inspection · prohibition · warfare · toxic · mass destruction · chlorine · atrocity · war crime · Syria · verification · stockpile · nonproliferation · Convention
- arms controlarms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, arms deals, arms reduction
- treatiestreaty, treaties, peace treaty, peace treaties, bilateral treaty
- weapon restrictionsgun ban, handgun ban, nuclear ban, arms embargo
- WWI aftermathTreaty of Versailles, Versailles, League of Nations, war memorials, peace treaties
- war lawGeneva Conventions, laws of war, Hague Conventions, humanitarian law, military protocol
- WMD threatsbiological warfare, bioterrorism, poison gas, nerve agent, anthrax
chemical weapons banchemical warfare
Combat using toxic substances
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