Weapons which cause injuries of various kinds and degrees to man and beast by the use of the asphyxiating, toxic, irritant, paralysing, growth-regulating, anti-lubricating or catalytic properties of a solid, liquid or gaseous chemical.

Chemical weapons may also pollute food, beverages and materials. Their use, manufacture and stockpiling are prohibited. See Biological and bacteriological weapons; Means of warfare; Weapons; Conduct of hostilities;

 OUTLINE

Chapter 9, d) chemical weapons

 LEGAL SOURCE

CIHL, 74

CIHL, 75

CIHL, 76

 DOCUMENTS

The Geneva Chemical Weapons Protocol

Convention on the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction, Paris 13 January 1993

Switzerland, Prohibition of the Use of Chemical Weapons

 CASES

 BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

Suggested reading :

BOTHE Michael (ed.), The New Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation and Prospects, The Hague, Kluwer Law International, 1998, 613 pp.

International Institute of Humanitarian Law, The Chemical Weapons Convention: between Disarmament and International Humanitarian Law: [international seminar], Sanremo, Italy, 15 February 2008, Sanremo, February 2008, 24 pp.

KRUTZSCH Walter & TRAPPS Ralph (eds), A Commentary on the Chemical Weapons Convention, Dordrecht, M.Nijhoff, 1994, 543 pp.

SOLOMON Brian (ed.), Chemical and Biological Warfare, New York, Wilson, 1999, 158 pp.

Further reading :

BAUDENDISTEL Rainer, “Force Versus Law: The International Committee of the Red Cross and Chemical Warfare in the Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-1936”, in IRRC, No. 322, March 1998, pp. 81-104 

FENWICK Charles G., “New Developments in the Law Concerning the Use of Conventional Weapons in Armed Conflict”, in CYIL, Vol. 19, 1981, pp. 229-256.

GASPARINI Giovanni & RONZITTI Natalino (eds), The Tenth Anniversary of the CWC’s Entry into Force: Achievements and Problems, Roma, Istituto Affari Internazionali, December 2007, 128 pp.

HUNT Cecil, “The Potential Contribution of the Chemical Weapons Convention to Combating Terrorism”, in MJIL, Vol. 20/3, 1999, pp. 523-535.

YUZON E.F.J., “Deliberate Environmental Modification Through the Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons: Greening the International Laws of Armed Conflict to Establish an Environmentally Protective Regime”, in American UniversityJournal of International Law and Policy, Vol. 11, 1996, pp. 793-846.