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Article: U.S. SAYS DISCUSSING MERITS OF TREATIES TO PREVENT 'WEAPONIZATION' OF OUTER SPACE 'POINTLESS'
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 22, 2007
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The United Nations issued the following press release:
"Discussions regarding the merits of treaties to prevent the so-called 'weaponization' of outer space would be a pointless exercise", the United States representative asserted today in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), as it opened a thematic debate on the disarmament aspects of outer space.
He said that long experience had shown the futility of attempting to define what constituted a "space weapon", or to effectively verify any proposed limitation of such weapons. Any object orbiting or transiting through outer space could be a weapon if that object was placed intentionally on a collision course with another ...