The US is not a Signatory to the 1977 Additional Protocols of the Geneva Convention.
>/i> It gets more interesting than that. When Nixon unilaterally abrogated our treaty with the Chines, and negotiated with Red Chinese, the Supreme Court rule that a President has the Constitutional power to unilaterally abrogate a treaty. Does anyone have a cite on that?
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"When Nixon unilaterally abrogated our treaty with the Chines, and negotiated with Red Chinese, the Supreme Court rule that a President has the Constitutional power to unilaterally abrogate a treaty. Does anyone have a cite on that?"
Jimmy Carter did this in 1979, not Nixon. Carter was sued by Congress and the Supreme Court ruled on it in Goldwater v. Carter:
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/143/