A soft-nosed, partially jacketed pistol bullet designed to expand and mushroom on impact was prohibited in international warfare by which instrument?

• A Geneva Convention of 1949
• B Helsinki Declaration
• C Hague Declaration of 1899 ✓
• D Nuremberg Code

Explanation

Expanding bullets such as the dum-dum, with a soft nose or partial jacket that mushrooms in tissue to enlarge the permanent cavity, were banned in international armed conflict by the Hague Declaration of 1899. The Geneva Conventions address humanitarian treatment of victims of war rather than weapon design. The Helsinki Declaration concerns research ethics and the Nuremberg Code concerns human experimentation.

Reference: The Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, 35th ed.

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