#  Nixon Decisions 1969-1970 

 



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 US government deliberations concerning CBW weapons and CBW arms control and disarmament starting in the Presidency of John F. Kennedy, leading to the decisions by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969 and 1970 to renounce biological and toxin weapons, to seek Senate approval of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, and to support the UK Draft Convention prohibiting biological weapons and subsequent events leading to US ratification of the Geneva Protocol, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention and subsequent implementation of the BWC and the CWC in the US and abroad.

 **Henry Kissinger**

 Description of close relationship over decades.

 Kissinger [Correspondence](/file_url/3850), describe key communications

 Unpublished articles written for Kissinger:

\- [What Policy for Toxins?](/file_url/134)

\- [The United States and the Geneva Protocol of 1925](/file_url/3883)