#NUKES: Russia vetoes banning nukes in orbit. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
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🗓️ 27 April 2024
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#NUKES: Russia vetoes banning nukes in orbit. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/no-surprise-russia-vetoes-un-resolution-reaffirming-ban-on-nukes-in-space/
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| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
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| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of Paradise Now world. I'm John Bachelor. Breaking in defense. Russia vetoes US-Japan resolution against nukes and space. Unprecedent escalation in UN fight. |
| 0:50.0 | Subhead. Although Russia would not be expected to vote for a resolution aimed at its own conduct, |
| 0:56.6 | its response that it is against putting nuclear weapons in space is just vague enough to not |
| 1:01.9 | quite be reassuring. is just |
| 1:05.0 | a vague enough to not quite be reassuring. That's Jessica West of Canada's Project Plowshares. |
| 1:08.0 | I welcome Henry Sikalski, the executive director of the |
| 1:12.0 | Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, who has anticipated |
| 1:16.0 | this moment at the UN Security Council by producing lots of thinking about nukes in space. |
| 1:23.0 | Henry, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:25.0 | This is the Outer Space Treaty, 1967. |
| 1:28.0 | And you and I have discussed it in the past. |
| 1:30.0 | Russia at the time the Soviet Union is a signatory. |
| 1:34.0 | China at the time, the People's Republic of China, still is, |
| 1:38.1 | a signatory later on, but in the 1980s. |
| 1:42.3 | And China endorsed the Russian decision to veto a US Japan resolution. Do we have an |
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