Editing Arms control (section)

===1900 to 1945===
A [[Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)|Second Hague Conference]] was called in 1907 leading to additions and amendments to the original 1899 agreement.<ref>{{cite web |title=Declaration (XIV) Prohibiting the Discharge of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |url=http://www.icrc.org/IHL.NSF/INTRO/245?OpenDocument |work=Humainitarian Law |publisher=International Committee of the Red Cross |access-date=13 May 2012}}</ref>  A Third Hague Conference was called for 1915, but this was abandoned due to the [[First World War]].

After the World War I, the [[League of Nations]] was set up which attempted to limit and reduce arms.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Arms Control and Disarmament – Between the world wars, 1919–1939 |url=http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/Arms-Control-and-Disarmament-Between-the-world-wars-1919-1939.html |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the New American Nation |publisher=Advameg, Inc. |access-date=16 May 2012}}</ref>  However the enforcement of this policy was not effective. Various naval conferences, such as the [[Washington Naval Conference]], were held during the period between the First and Second World Wars to limit the number and size of major warships of the five great naval powers.

The 1925 [[Geneva Naval Conference|Geneva Conference]] led to the banning of [[chemical weapon]]s being deployed against enemy nationals in international armed conflict as part of the [[Geneva Protocol]]. The 1928 [[Kellogg-Briand Pact]], whilst ineffective, attempted for "providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy".<ref>{{cite web|title=Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/kbpact.htm |publisher=The Avalon Project |access-date=13 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509201753/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/kbpact.htm |archive-date=9 May 2012 }}</ref>