Agreement to Ban Protection, Use & Stockpiling of Chemical Weapons Is Reached

On September 3, 1992, the thirty-nine-member Conference on Disarmament reached agreement on a 190-page draft treaty that would ban signatory states from using, producing or stockpiling poisonous gas and other lethal chemical weapons. The treaty also bars the use of herbicides and other toxic chemicals “as a method of warfare”, although it permits non-toxic chemicals such as tear gas, which cause temporary disablement for use in riot control…[more]