By Delbert R. Terrill Jr.

Describes the U.S. Air strength resistance to the passage of foreign conventions(treaties) & the overall impression the competition had at the improvement of overseas legislation in area.

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7. , 10. , 11. 31 Col T. J. Dayharsh to Howard E. Hensleigh, DOD assistant general counsel (international affairs), memorandum, subject: Canadian Understanding of United States Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile Plans as They Concern Canada, 12 September 1957. 32 Carroll, 2. , 2-3. , 3. 35 R Cargill Hall, “Origins of US Space Policy: Eisenhower, Open Skies, and Freedom of Space,” Colloquy (December 1993), 23. Walter A. McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books.

Sputnik as used hereafter refers specifically to the spaceflights of Sputniks I and II not to the general term sputnik, which is the Russian word for satellite. 46 Watson, 123-26. 47 Piers Brendon, Ike, His Life and Times (New York: Harper & Row, 1986), 347-49; Marquis William Childs, Eisenhower: Captive Hero; A Critical Study of the General and the President (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958), 258-63. 48 For a more detailed discussion of the Soviet and US capabilities, see Robert H. Ferrell, American Diplomacy: A History (New York: Norton, 1969), 659-60.

Existing legal rules do not necessarily require or forbid any specific activities of the type that we are likely to contemplate in outer space; the law of outer space has still to be evolved; the United States should 33 determine what space policies and activities are desirable on other grounds before asking whether they violate old legal rules or require new ones. Political and psychological measures should be prepared for the contingency of continued Soviet successes in space. Efforts should be made to offset Russia’s claims that it stands only for peace while the US wants war.

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