Thermobaric weapons and the Geneva Protocol

[Arbiter]

From what I've researched of thermobaric weapons, the process of the bomb is to deploy a massive cloud of gas or liquid fuel over a very large area, and then ignite the fuel, creating an the largest explosion of any non-nuclear bomb.

One unique feature of thermobaric bombs is that they use atmospheric oxygen instead of carrying an oxidizer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon

This results in a massive explosion that essentially burns up all the oxygen for a few kms in each direction from the blast core.

After the initial blast there is a phase in which a very strong air flow is created toward the blast epicenter. The air flow is strong enough cause asphyxia even outside the primary blast radius.

Would this not contravene the Geneva Protocol's ban on the use of asphyxia in warfare?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Protocol

 

[smokey]

So you have no problem with the actual "burn every living and non living thing in a few kilometres" bit then? Weird...

 

[Arbiter]

Hey, I'm not the hypocrite here!

The bomb does indeed burn every living and non living thing etc, but strangely, that's still a-okay with the folks at the World Court! Hmm...

The question still stands though. I was wondering whether thermobaric bombs, almost per definition, are actually banned by the Geneva Protocol?

 

[Zana]

Would this not contravene the Geneva Protocol's ban on the use of asphyxia in warfare?

I think all warfare should be banned from your planet for good and your minds reprogrammed around butterflies and hearts and kissing ♥
lol It is possible now, with your own tech

Anyway, i dont see the logic in the statement banning a method of killing where people kill each other anyway.. then again when the nuclear bomb was droped over Japan, would that not be considered unfair warfare?
Then again, Life isnt a game, where you die and re-spawn yourselves over and over... you die and live once, which is the whole seriousness of Life.

Lotsa love and huggles,
♥

 

[Tpex]

Oh now I see why they say that about you Zana....

Yay! More ways to kill stuff! kill! kill! kill!

(More humian than a nuke tho)

 

[Zana]

Oh now I see why they say that about you Zana....

Yay! More ways to kill stuff! kill! kill! kill!

(More humian than a nuke tho)

I sometimes wonder and find it hard to see the connection of the word human and humane ...

 

[Nanfeishen]

There is no reason to consider them any different from any other standard weapon system.
They do not contain nor utilise any form of radioactive material, nor do they utilise any biological components, so they cannot be defined as either nuclear nor biological in nature.
No reason for them to be considered as anything more than powerful explosive.
They could not be utilised for biological deployment anyway, as the temperatures created by the explosion would nulify the biological agent.