A joint resolution calling upon the President to seek a mutual and verifiable ban on weapons in space and on weapons designed to attack objects in space.

Summary

Urges the President to seek an agreement with the Soviet Union to: (1) declare a verifiable and limited moratorium on the testing in space of antisatellite weapons; (2) resume negotiations on a verifiable ban on the testing, production, deployment, and use of any antisatellite weapon; and (3) seek a verifiable treaty prohibiting any space-directed or space-based weapons system which is designed to cause damage on earth, in the atmosphere, or on objects placed in space. Declares that such agreements should not restrict non-weapons operations in space, such as the U.S. space shuttle program.

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 18 November 1983

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 14 July 1983

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