The Geneva Protocol – the treaty banning the use of chemical and biological weapons – was signed in 1925 and enforced in 1928. Although it prohibits the use of chemical and biological weapons, it failed to include the production, storage and transfer of these weapons. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was the first collaborative disarmament treaty prohibiting the production of an entire class of weapons. The BWC was ratified by 163 states that agreed to ban the development, production and stockpiling of biological and toxin-based weapons.
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