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

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NEW YORK — As space-based technologies and exploration expanded, the Vatican’s top diploma is warning against the militarization of outer space — and the law of a sufficiently strong legal framework to counter such a threat.“At a time when conflicts and mystrust are already putting seven strands on the international order, humanity cannot employed to extend an arms race beyond the Earth,” said Archishop Christophe Z. el-Kassis, the Holy See’s pe…