Fifth, the Charter of the United Nations, existing multilateral treaties relating to outer space, arms control provisions of other multilateral and certain bilateral treaties relating to outer space, together with customary international law and the domestic law of individual nations, interact with and complement each other in such a way that together, they provide an extensive and comprehensive system for limiting the uses of outer space to those that are peaceful, while providing a framework for the legitimate military uses of outer space. Therefore, the U.S. believes new legally binding instruments are unnecessary at this time. Lastly, Ambassador Grey questioned the logic for immediate negotiations on a space arms control treaty.

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Billick, Thomas W. Arms Control Implications for Military Operations in Space. Maxwell AFB, AL: USAF Air University, May 2001. [ 6 quotes ] [ page 52 ]