Richard Nixon: “The United States has renounced the first-use of lethal and…”

On the recordAugust 18, 1970

The United States has renounced the first-use of lethal and incapacitating chemical weapons.

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Republican · California

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Message to the Senate Transmitting the Geneva Protocol of 1925 on Chemical and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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Richard Nixon: “The United States has renounced the first-use of lethal and incapacitating chemical weapons.”