Urges the President to seek an agreement with the Soviet Union to: (1) declare a verifiable and limited moratorium on the testing in space of antisatellite weapons; (2) resume negotiations on a verifiable ban on the testing, production, deployment, and use of any antisatellite weapon; and (3) seek a verifiable treaty prohibiting any space-directed or space-based weapons system which is designed to cause damage on earth, in the atmosphere, or on objects placed in space.
Declares that such agreements should not restrict non-weapons operations in space, such as the U.S. space shuttle program.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported to Senate by Senator Percy with an amendment and with a preamble. With written report No. 98-342.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported to Senate by Senator Percy with an amendment and with a preamble. With written report No. 98-342.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 635.
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