Nuclear bombs aren't just weapons with the potential to destroy mankind, they could save it instead. James A Green talks deadly asteroids and how we can avoid the same fate as the dinosoars
as our best hope. The US and Russia have even mooted working together on a nuclear planetary defence initiative. All of a sudden, it seems Bruce Willis and his team might be put on NASA’s speed dial after all.As a lawyer I can’t help but wonder how these recent developments sit with international law. Not well, it would seem. At the intersection of nuclear non-proliferation law and space law, various Cold War-era treaties would appear to rule out nuclear planetary defence.
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