US and Japan Seek UN Resolution to Ban Nuclear Weapons in Space

U.S. United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield addresses a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on maintenance of international peace and security Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, at U.N. headquarters, New York on March 18, 2024. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Photo

UNITED NATIONS—The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the U.S. ambassador announced Monday.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a U.N. Security Council meeting that “any placement of nuclear weapons into orbit around the Earth would be unprecedented, dangerous, and unacceptable.”