[RightWhale]

• the OST treaty does not ban the U.S or any other country from putting weapons into orbit, as long as the weapons are for peaceful purposes.

  It's a shame the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is being kept around because of the (ineffective) weapons provision when it is blocking private property ownership and resource development in outer space.

[processing please hold]

as long as the weapons are for peaceful purposes.

What weapons are for peaceful purposes again?

I'm so upset with you, RW. As if I didn't have enough on my plate concerning the un. (though you didn't mean to) Now you have prodded me into digging around about the Space Treaty. lol

I have so many articles on it I don't know where to begin.

[o_zarkman44]

This treaty will work just like the nuclear non proliferation treaty. It hasn’t and it won’t.