Vatican diplomat warns UN of arms race in space, calls for ban on all space weapons

Archbishop Christophe Z. el-Kassis, the Holy See's permanent observer to the UN, warned in an Oct. 21 statement to the First Committee against militarizing outer space and called for legally binding measures banning all space weapons. He cited gaps in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and recent admissions of deployed U.S. space control weapons. The article covers diplomacy and security, with technology as the backdrop.