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Rules of Warfare, Arms Control
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Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field. Prepared by Francis Lieber (The Lieber Code) (1863)
Convention (I) for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (29 Jul 1899)
Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land (29 Jul 1899)
Convention (II) for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (18 Oct 1907)
Convention (III) Relative to the Opening of Hostilities (18 Oct 1907)
Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of
War on Land
(18 Oct 1907)
Convention (V) Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land (18 Oct 1907)
Convention (VI) Relating to the Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities (18 Oct 1907)
Convention (VII) Relating to the Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-Ships (18 Oct 1907)
Convention (VIII) Relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines (18 Oct 1907)
Convention (IX) Concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War (18 Oct 1907)
Convention (X) for the Adaption to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention (18 Oct 07)
Convention (XI) Relative to Certain Restrictions with Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War (18 Oct 1907)
Convention (XIII) Concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War (18 Oct 1907)
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (17 Jun 1925)
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (9 Dec 1948)
Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field. WWW version (12 Aug 1949)
Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (12 Aug 1949)
Geneva Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (12 Aug 1949)
Geneva Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (12 Aug 1949)
Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (14 May 1954). WWW version
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water (5 Aug 1963)
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1 Jul 1968)
Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof (11 February 1971)
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (10 Apr 1972)
Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-ballistic Missile Systems (26 May 1972); and Protocol of 3 July 1974.
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (10 Dec 1976)
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflict (Protocol I) (8 Jun 1977)
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflict (Protocol II) (8 Jun 1977)
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects (10 Oct 1980)
South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (6 Aug 1985)
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (19 Nov 1990)
Treaty on Open Skies; (24 Mar 1992). Text and annexes from U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Arms Control.
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (13 Jan 1993). Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and Ratification Status.
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Click on CTBT)(10 Sept 1996). UN Centre for Disarmamant Affairs
United Nations International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (12 Jan 1998)
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