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Arms Control TodayMay 2, 2013
In an effort to garner wider international support for its proposed international code of conduct for outer space activities, the European Union announced last month that it plans to hold a series of consultations on the current draft.
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Arms Control TodayFebruary 28, 2013
China successfully launched a land-based missile interceptor Jan. 28, according to Xinhua, the country’s official news agency.
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Arms Control TodayNovember 2, 2012
The second diplomatic meeting of space-faring countries on the European Union’s proposed international code of conduct for space, which was supposed to take place in October in New York, has been postponed until some time in 2013, an EU official familiar with the issue said last month.
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Arms Control TodayAugust 30, 2012
The European Union in late July provided details on its process of adopting an international code of conduct for outer space activities, clarifying why the process is not directly tied to any of the various existing UN forums and what the EU’s planned timetable is for negotiating the agreement.
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Arms Control TodayJuly 5, 2012
The European Union circulated a new draft of its proposed international code of conduct for outer space activities at its first international meeting of governmental experts June 5 in Vienna.
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Arms Control TodayMarch 2, 2012
The United States will join with the European Union and other space-faring countries to develop an international code of conduct for outer space activities, but will not sign on to the EU’s current draft of a proposed code, U.S. officials have said.
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Arms Control TodayJanuary 12, 2012
A comprehensive review of missile proliferation published in 1988 listed 20 nonindustrialized nations that were deploying various types of ballistic missiles at the time. Tucked toward the bottom of that list was one Middle Eastern country with just three types of missiles, two of which were actually simple, unguided rockets. That country was Iran.
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Arms Control TodayAugust 30, 2011
The Pentagon’s new cyber strategy provides the department with guidance on how to defend the United States in cyberspace. The strategy states that cyberspace is an operational domain in which the rules of armed conflict apply.
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Arms Control TodayJuly 7, 2011
Iran carried out its second successful satellite launch, demonstrating greater experience with rocket technologies that also could benefit its missile programs.
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Arms Control TodayApril 14, 2011
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