U.N. Hopes to Ban New Fissionable Material, Space-Based Weapons Walter Pincus, The Washington Post

U.N. Hopes to Ban New Fissionable Material, Space-Based Weapons
Walter Pincus, The Washington Post
It was a small step.

But after almost a decade of deadlock, the United Nations Conference on Disarmament last week approved a working group to negotiate a treaty banning the production of fissionable material for nuclear weapons and another to discuss preventing an arms race in outer space.

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