US and Japan seek UN resolution calling on all nations to ban nuclear weapons in outer space

The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a council meeting Monday that placing nuclear weapons in orbit around Earth would be “dangerous, and unacceptable.” The announcement that the U.S…
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