United States of America, Respondent
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., U.S. Solicitor General
In 1997, the U.S. Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, which had been opened for signature January 13, 1993. The convention replaced the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibited the use of chemical weapons only during warfare. The convention requires signatory nations to agree not to use, develop, or stockpile chemical weapons and to prevent persons anywhere on their territory from doing likewise. To implement this, Congress enacted the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998. In 2007, the…
