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Two allied soldiers wore masks during the use of chemical weapons during World War I.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id – In the event of war, international treaties prohibit the use of some weapons. One of those treaties is the Geneva Protocol of 1925 which can still be accessed at page United Nations, and continues to be developed in several resolutions of its general assembly.
The story of the ban on the use of chemical weapons began in the post -industrial revolution and in World War I.
After the industrial revolution, European countries developed various advances in chemistry. There are also many discoveries of new materials or synthesis which were originally intended for peaceful purposes, and improving civilian life. But then it became military use in World War I.
During World War I, military technology was also developing rapidly. It can be seen, how the use of tanks, planes, machine guns for the first time in the battlefield. And poison gas is also used as a variation to kill the opponent.
AP Padley in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in 2016 wrote, that European countries realized the danger before then. In fact, in 1899, they entered into an agreement in the Hague Convention with a statement that any means, including the diffusion of gases that cause suffocation or damage, would be prohibited from being used in war.
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