Strasbourg Agreement (1675)
- Strasbourg Agreement (1675)
The Strasbourg Agreement of 1675 is the first international agreement banning the use of chemical weapons. The treaty was signed between France and the Holy Roman Empire, and was created in response to the use of poisoned bullets. The treaty was signed on August 27, 1675. The next major agreement on chemical weapons did not occur until the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
ee 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
* [http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/arms/chem_bio3-en.asp "Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention"]
* Robin Clarke, We all Fall Down: The Prospect of Biological and Chemical Warfare (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press), 1968.
* Seymour M. Hersh, Chemical and Biological Weapons: America's Hidden Arsenal (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company), 1968.
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