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The Ploughshares Monitor: Spring 2022
March 15, 2022Volume 43 Issue 1 A quarterly publication of Project Ploughshares Please click on attachment to view document:
The Ploughshares Monitor: Winter 2021
November 29, 2021The Winter 2021 issue of Project Ploughshares quarterly publication.
Norms for Outer Space: A Small Step or a Giant Leap for Policymaking?
March 18, 2022Space is increasingly critical to modern life on Earth. But there is growing concern that, as it becomes more economically and strategically important, tensions between different space actors are heightening in a manner that could lead to conflict. The accelerating proliferation of counterspace capabilities, as well as the enactment of national policies that deem space an operational or warfighting domain, underlines the very real nature of threats that exist and highlights the importance of keeping space peaceful.
The Ploughshares Monitor: Spring 2022
March 15, 2022Volume 43 Issue 1 A quarterly publication of Project Ploughshares Please click on attachment to view document:
Arms control in outer space: Status, timeline, and analysis
March 14, 2022Contrary to popular imagination, outer space is not a “Wild, Wild West” of lawlessness. Human activities in outer space are governed by international law, including the United Nations Charter, international humanitarian law (IHL), and, most critically, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), which sets out broad principles on how states are to conduct themselves in this domain, including commitments to registration, due regard, responsibility, liability, and non-contamination.
Statement on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
February 24, 2022Russia’s illegal military incursion into Ukraine poses a grave threat to international security, undermines the rules-based international order, and endangers the lives of millions of civilians. It also risks escalating into a wider conflict, with devastating consequences in Europe and beyond.
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