Preventing an arms race in outer space was the hot-button issue on the floor of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) today, as Egypt, in one of two draft resolutions introduced in the Committee, sought to highlight the danger of an arms race in outer space, while representatives of countries with major space capabilities debated how best to address the issue.

China has joined other members of a United Nations technical subcommittee in approving draft guidelines for mitigating manmade space debris, after receiving "considerable criticism" for adding to the space-debris problem with its Jan. 11 anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test.

Report from the opening of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament with statements from 17 countries, mainly focusing on the question of prevention of an arms race in outer space.

The U.N. Conference on Disarmament held a structured debate on the issue of the prevention of an arms race in outer space, addressing the issue of transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space.

The U.N. Conference on Disarmament held a structured debate on the issue of the prevention of an arms race in outer space, first addressing the importance and significance of prevention of an arms race in outer space, and then debating the scope and basic definitions of a future international legal agreement on prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space, and the threat or use of force against outer space objects.

A new report from the United Nations University's Millennium Project warns that many people still do not appreciate how fast science and technology (S&T) will change over the next 25 years, and given this rapid development along several different fronts, the possibility of technology growing beyond human control must now be taken seriously.

Several nations are pressing for creation of a U.N. agency to monitor biological weapons and missiles, but in the face of U.S. opposition such a body might never be anything more than a notion.

Does the world need therapeutic cloning research? UN members are preparing to vote on a resolution to ban human cloning.

Scientists from around the world yesterday urged the United Nations to ban reproductive cloning of humans.

Scientists meeting in Vienna under U.N. auspices have been working on guidelines for the design and operation of satellites, so that they will not create so much junk in outer space.