Isn’t this redundant? The UN Outer Space Treaty already prohibits all WMDs in space, and all major countries have signed on.
States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;
yes but political pandering
I think it might also be aimed at Russia because of the recent talks about space shenanigans
Seeing as China and Russia have UN Security Council vetos I don’t see how this would pass.
Anyone who can get a nuke in space already has nukes in space.
But that would mean there’s quite a few nukes up there already
Maybe.
I might sound like an idiot but what is the thing in the center of the photo used in this article? At first I thought it was someone in a black robe and black veil making their case to the council which upon closer inspection can’t be true, then looking closer it looks like a filled trash bag in the middle of the council which makes even less sense.
What am I looking at here?
Probably is a camera.
Ah now I see it, thank you!
TOPOTUN - The Other President Of The United Nations 🤖
UN is useless for countries like Russia, china and US and it’s allies
The only result of such a resolution would be that China, India and Russia would be the only countries with nukes in space.
Explain to me again how are we going to shoot down the alien space ships then? With what? Freaking rail cannons?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The US and Japan are sponsoring a UN security council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the US ambassador has announced.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a UN security council meeting that “any placement of nuclear weapons into orbit around the Earth would be unprecedented, dangerous, and unacceptable.”
Japan’s foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, who chaired the council meeting, said that even during “the confrontational environment” of the cold war, global rivals agreed to ensure that outer space remained peaceful.
Monday’s proposed resolution from the US and Japan was condemned as “yet another propaganda stunt by Washington,” “very politicised” and “divorced from reality” by Russia’s deputy US ambassador Dmitry Polyansky.
He criticised the text, saying the wording had not been worked out by experts nor discussed at specialised international platforms such as the UN Conference on Disarmament or the UN Committee on Outer Space.
UN secretary-general António Guterres briefed the council, saying “geopolitical tensions and mistrust have escalated the risk of nuclear warfare to its highest point in decades.”
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