A joint resolution calling for immediate negotiations for a ban on weapons of any kind in space.

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Directs the President to resume negotiations with the Soviet Union on a treaty prohibiting: (1) the testing, deployment, production, or use of any weapons system designed to damage or interfere with a spacecraft; and (2) the stationing in outer space of any weapon designed to inflict injury or damage on the Earth, in the atmosphere, or on objects placed in space. Requires such a treaty to provide for verifying compliance with its terms. Directs the President to seek the establishment of a working group within the United Nations to provide a forum for discussing a multilateral space treaty banning from space all weapons launched by any country.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 23 September 1982

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