• bhmnscmm@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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;

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

  • teft@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Seeing as China and Russia have UN Security Council vetos I don’t see how this would pass.

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      8 months ago

      The UN is something everyone just ignores as we’ve learned over the last five months. Especially America.

  • small44@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    UN is useless for countries like Russia, china and US and it’s allies

  • LemmySoloHer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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?

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    8 months ago

    Anyone who can get a nuke in space already has nukes in space.

  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Explain to me again how are we going to shoot down the alien space ships then? With what? Freaking rail cannons?

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    8 months ago

    The only result of such a resolution would be that China, India and Russia would be the only countries with nukes in space.