When it comes to space, the key piece of legislation is the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, of which Article IV prohibits placing nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit.

The US and Japan on Monday proposed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on countries not to deploy or develop any kind of nuclear weapons in space.

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bars signatories – including Russia and the United States – from placing "in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of ...

Russia on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations resolution that would ban the use of nuclear weapons in outer space amid US intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear ...

Russia may be looking to place nuclear weapons in space, which would pose a significant security risk on earth, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has said. The alliance chief told German newspaper ...

Russia’s apparent pursuit of a nuclear space-based weapon has stirred a frenzy in Washington — and raised a flurry of questions among a world of scientists and experts.

The treaty prohibits "nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction" in orbit or stationing weapons in outer space "in any other manner". Anti-satellite weapons are nothing new.

Putin says Russia opposes nuclear weapons in space Putin: we urge compliance with such agreements US thinks Moscow working on space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon Shoigu: Russia has no such ...

In the early 1960s, U.S. policymakers became afraid that the Soviet Union would deploy orbital nuclear weapons in the form of a fractional orbital bombardment system—that is, launch a nuclear weapon ...

Using nuclear weapons in space would have a big political impact. For Nato countries, it could raise questions about whether Article 5 — the principle that an attack on one member of the ...