Hearings on H.R. 9745, H.R. 9749, H.R. 10011, and H.R. 10012: Identical Bills, to Insure that No Public Funds be Used for the Purpose of Transporting Chemical Nerve Agents to Or from Any Military Installation in the United States for Storage Or Stockpiling Purposes Unless it is the Sense of Congress to Do So |
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Page 67 - Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare...
Page 68 - BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WARFARE Signed at Geneva June 17, 1925 Entered into force February 8, 1928 The Undersigned Plenipotentiaries, in the name of their respective Governments: Whereas the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices...
Page 69 - It is the United States understanding of the protocol that it does not prohibit the use in war of riotcontrol agents and chemical...
Page 68 - Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925...
Page 125 - THE ARMY, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, Washington, DC, October 29, 1973.
Page 43 - I thank you for your courtesy, and if you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them.
Page 67 - To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification...
Page 34 - It would be unreasonable to contend that any rule of international law prohibits the use in combat against an enemy, for humanitarian purposes, of agents that governments around the world commonly use to control riots by their own people.
Page 68 - That the said protocol shall cease to be binding on the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in regard to all enemy states whose armed forces or whose allies de jure or in fact do not respect the restrictions which are the object of this Protocol.
Page 70 - The present protocol, of which the French and English texts are both authentic, shall be ratified. The deposit of ratifications shall be made at the Secretariat of the League of Nations as soon as possible.