There is a treaty against mining the sea floor- it’s why we don’t go after methane clathrates or sea floor manganese nodules.
Is japan a signatory? Or, who can go after this? We can’t, we signed.
Glomar Explorer.... lol
mining nuclear missiles off the seafloor.. heh
I remember a picture of that ship in my science book as an example of seafloor mining
from what I’m reading online the US Senate has never ratified the “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” so we should not be bound by it?!!?
We signed (executive branch) but never ratified?
Also, a treaty can be renounced if we had the balls to do so...... of course a Democrat admin. would be most unlikely to do so, but for serious enough mineral and oil/gas prospects it could become a good campaign issue to throw them out, or am I dreaming?