text: General Background and Basic Principles of the Law of Armed Conflict
  Table 1-2. Treaties (continued)
  Law of armed conflict treaties to which the United States is a party (continued)
  Treaty Name Reference/Citation
  Procès-Verbal Relating to the Rules of Submarine Warfare set forth in Part IV of 3 Bevans 298
  the Treaty of London of April 22, 1930 (London Protocol).
  Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic 49 Stat. 3267, TS
  Monuments of April 15, 1935 899, 3 Bevans 254,
  167 LNTS 279
  (Roerich Pact)
  Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and 6 UST 3114, T.I.A.S.
  Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of August 12, 1949 (GWS). 3362, 75 UNTS 31
  Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and 6 UST 3217, T.I.A.S.
  Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea of August 12, 1949 (GWS Sea). 3363, 75 UNTS 85
  Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 6 UST 3216, T.I.A.S.
  1949 (GPW). 3364, 75 UNTS 135
  Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 6 UST 3516, T.I.A.S.
  of August 12, 1949 (GC). 3365, 75 UNTS 287
  Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed 249 UNTS 240
  Conflict of May 14, 1954 (1954 Hague Cultural Property Convention).
  Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional 1342 UNTS 137
  Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have
  Indiscriminate Effects of October 10, 1980, its Protocols I, II, III, IV, and V, its
  Amended Protocol II, and its extended scope of application (CCW).
  Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Optional Protocol on
  involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, May 25, 2000 Children in Armed
  Conflict
  Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating AP III
  to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III), December 8,
  2005
  Arms control agreements to which the United States is a party that are of direct relevance to the
  law of armed conflict
  Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, 26 UST 571, T.I.A.S.
  Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare of June 8061, 94 LNTS 65
  17, 1925 (1925 Geneva Gas Protocol)
  Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production and Stockpiling of 26 UST 583, T.I.A.S.
  Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction of April 8062, 1015 UNTS
  10, 1972 163 (BWC)
  Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of 31 UST 333, TIAS
  Environmental Modification Techniques of May 18, 1977 9614 (ENMOD
  Convention)
  Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and CWC
  Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction of January 13, 1993
  Law of armed conflict treaties signed but not ratified by the United States
  Protocol (I) Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, and AP I
  Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts of June 8,
  1977
  Protocol (II) Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, and AP II
  Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts of
  June 8, 1977