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OUTER SPACE SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT TREATY 20I1 SPACE SECURITY OUTER AND 2011 DEVELOPMENT TREATY This is a pivotal moment in history when we can ban space-based weapons before an irreversible momentum of funding and vested interests makes them impossible to stop. A new Treaty to ensure peace in space is an urgent priority. Welcome to Peace in Space he Outer Space Security and Development Treaty of 2011 establishes a framework and procedures to assure that space will be a neutral realm from which all classes of weapons are banned and from which no hostile action shall be taken toward Earth or the surrounding Cosmos. This Treaty invites Nation States to become Signatories to this Treaty and invites Parties, including Nation States, Indigenous Nations, and Cosmic Cultures to commit to plan and assist in the orderly development and implementation of a framework and procedures that will assure and verify that space is and will remain a neutral realm from which all classes of space-based weapons are banned in perpetuity. This Treaty will put a lid on the war industry and mindset while allowing it to be transformed. It recognizes that information and data gained and shared from cooperative space exploration and development will provide unlimited benefits and opportunities to all humankind in areas of health, education, the economy, mutual security, energy, and the environment...as wars end. Together, we can and will get this Treaty signed into world law! The Parties to this Treaty: Reaffirm the urgency of preventing a destabilizing, threatening, and costly arms race in space, Recognize that an agreement by Treaty to create a weapons-free space domain © ensure universal cooperation in space will save huge sums that would otherwise be expended for a dangerous and provocative space arms race, Recognize that eliminating space-based weapons is more easily accomplished by agreement before any further investment is made to place them in position, Confirm that it is the obligation of all State leaders to ban all space-based weapons including the intention to weaponize space, the moon or any celestial body or to use any space-based technology as a space-based weapon, Reaffirm the urgent need for agreements on concrete proposals and projects deriving from confidence-building, world-cooperative space ventures which wil prevent an arms race in outer space, Recognize that information and data gained from cooperative space exploration and development will provide unlimited benefits and opportunities to al umankind in areas of health, education, the economy, mutual security, energy, and the environment, Acknowledge that we are not alone in the universes, that there are Cosmic Cultures that will be important allies for our security and development, and tha’ our national and international policies must reflect this reality, Acknowledge that from the beginning of nuclear weapons testing, extraterrestrial craft have demonstrated a capability to selectively shut down communications and/or the power of participating operational units, and have appeared over ICBM fields in several countries causing non-destructive failure of Founder Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space (ISCOS) Website: http://www.PeaceinSpace.com NEXUS ° 41 from Dr Carol Rosin OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com