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As a result of the horrors of World War I, from 1918 onwards public opinion was strongly against chemical warfare. There was also widespread fear that chemical and biological warfare would lead to devastating consequences in any future war. The result was the signing of the Geneva Protocol in 1925. This Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare was drawn up and signed at the Conference for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition, which was held in Geneva under the auspices of the League of Nations. It entered into force in 1928, prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons, but not experimentation, production, storage or transfer, which were to be covered by later treaties.