Suchergebnisse

Application and relevance of international law -- Sources of international law -- States and international organizations -- International dispute settlement -- International law of treaties -- Rights of individuals -- Foreign relations law in the United States -- Exercise of national jurisdiction -- Immunities from jurisdiction -- Law of the sea -- International environmental law -- Use of force and arms control -- International legal research

In his policy statement of November 25, 1969, on chemical and biological warfare, President Richard M. Nixon declared that the Administration would ask the Senate for advice and consent to the ratification of the Geneva Protocol of 1925. At the same time, the President reaffirmed the renunciation by the United States of "the first use of lethal chemical weapons" and extended "this renunciation to the first use of incapacitating chemicals." With regard to biological weapons, the President renounced the use of all biological weapons and methods of warfare, declared that the United States would confine its biological research to defensive measures, and ordered the Defense Department to make recommendations for the "disposal of existing stocks of bacteriological weapons." On February 14, 1970, the President extended the ban on biological weapons to include toxins.