Nuclear Weapons (Space)

HC Deb 20 July 1999 vol 335 c475W

Mr. Jim Cunningham

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps he has taken to discourage the deployment of nuclear armaments in space. [91693]

Mr. George Robertson

The deployment of nuclear armaments in space is prohibited by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. All the Nuclear Weapon States, and the four states yet to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as non-nuclear-weapon status, Cuba, India, Israel, Pakistan, are members of the Outer Space Treaty.