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Article: Back to the future: the Outer Space Treat turns 40.
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- Ploughshares Monitor
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Renewed interest in outer space has been sparked by the Chinese anti-satellite test on 11 January 2007, negotiations to deploy elements of the US Ballistic Missile Defense System in Poland and the Czech Republic, a new US National Space Policy, and calls within Canada for a new space strategy (Salloum 2007; Fergusson and James 2007). But the fortieth anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty (OST) has not been widely acknowledged and has inspired little reflection on the past, present, and future of a treaty so significant to the expansion of one of the last great fields of exploration and accomplishment.
Background
The "Treaty on Principles Governing the ...