Russia accused the United States today of seeking to develop weapons in space, a day after the UN Security Council rejected a Russian draft resolution on the issue and following similar accusations by Washington against Moscow. This exchange of accusations revives the fear, which had disappeared after the Cold War, of a possible arms race in space, despite the existence since 1967 of an outer space treaty which calls “for the non-development of nuclear weapons or any other of the weapons of mass destruction that have been specially designed to be put into orbit'. With the rejection of the Russian text yesterday, Monday, by Washington and its allies, the United States showed that it aims to “place weapons in outer space and make it an arena of military conflict”, complained the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy Maria Zakharova. “A new opportunity to prevent an arms race in space was lost through the fault of the United States and […]
Source: News Beast
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