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===Efforts to eradicate chemical weapons===
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* [[September 4]][[1900]] : The [[Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)|Hague Conference]], which includes a declaration banning the "use of projectiles the object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases," enters into force.▼
* [[August 27]][[1874]] : The [[Brussels Declaration]] Concerning the Laws and Customs of War is signed, specifically forbidding the "employment of poison or poisoned weapons."
▲* [[September 4]][[1900]] : The [[Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)|Hague Conference]], which includes a declaration banning the "use of projectiles the object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases," enters into force.
* [[February 6]][[1922]] : After World War I, the [[Washington Arms Conference Treaty]] prohibited the use of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases. It was signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy, but France objected to other provisions in the treaty and it never went into effect.
* [[September 7]][[1929]] : The [[Geneva Protocol]] enters into force, prohibiting the use of poison gas and bacteriological methods of warfare. As of [[2004]], there are 132 signatory nations.
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