Outer Space Weapons - Links

• United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (Vienna)
• the Conference on Disarmament (CD) is continuously affirmed as the single body for negotiating agreements with respect to outer space, but has remained deadlocked over the issue in recent years
• Outer Space Treaty (Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies)
• Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques
• Panel discussion, "Prospects for Peace and Security in Outer Space," hosted by the NGO Committee on October 21, 2004
• Making Missile Defense a Reality, Missile Defense Agency, within the United States Department of Defense

NGOs

• Center for Defense Information's Missile Defense and Space Weapons sections and Space Security Project
• Federation of American Scientists
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• Reaching Critical Will's resource page on proposed Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS) agreement
• Arms Control Association
• Western States Legal Foundation
• Archimedes Institute Space Law and Policy Library
• Institute for Cooperation in Space

Articles

• June 2005, "The Independent Review Team's Report on the GMD Program: A Rush to Failure, Redux"
• May 2005, "Scientists Warn Against Weaponizing Space," by Nick Wadhams, Associated Press,
• March 2005, "Engaging the Reluctant Superpower: Practical Measures for Ensuring Space Security," presentation by Theresa Hitchens, Center for Defense Information
• August 2004, "US Missle Defense Programs at a Glace", Wade Boese, Arms Control Association
• November 2002, "US Space Policy: Time to Stop and Think," Theresa Hitchens, Center for Defense Information, in Disarmament Diplomacy Issue no. 67.
• April 2002, "Breaking the Deadlock on Space Arms Control" An article from the Arms Control Association by James Clay Moltz
• "Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space" Presentation by Lloyd Axworthy, former Foreign Minister of Canada, to the Disarmament Agenda for the 21st Century international conference hosted jointly by the Department for Disarmament Affairs and the People's Republic of China on 2-4 April 2002
• May/June 2001, "Lost in Space: the Misguided Drive Toward Antisatellite Weapons" An article from Foreign Affairs by Michael Krepon
• February 1999, "Going Up and Down the Hill Again: Why the Administration's decision on Missile Defense is a Genuine Crisis for Nuclear Disarmament," Jonathan Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists