The Geneva Protocol, signed by 132 nations on June 17, 1925, was a treaty established to ban the use of chemical and biological weapons among signatories in international armed conflicts. As stated by Coupland and Leins, "it was fostered in part by a 1918 appeal in which the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) described the use of poisonous gas against soldiers as a barbarous invention which science is bringing to perfection". Chemical warfare agents that contained bromine, nitroaromatic, and chlorine were dismantled and destroyed. The destruction and disposal of the chemicals did not consider the long-term and adverse impacts on the environment.
The Geneva Protocol signed by 132 nations on June 17 1925 was a treaty established to ban the use of chemical and biological weapons among signatories in international armed conflicts As stated by Coupland and Leins "it was fostered in part by a 1918 appeal in which the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) described the use of poisonous gas against soldiers as a barbarous invention which science is bringing to perfection" Chemical warfare agents that contained bromine nitroaromatic and chlorine were dismantled and destroyed The destruction and disposal of the chemicals did not consider the long-term and adverse impacts on the environment