The Cold War, the Space Race, and the Law of Outer Space: Space for
Peace tells the story of one of the United Nations' most enduring
and least known achievements: the adoption of five multilateral
treaties that compose the international law of outer space. The
story begins in 1957 during the International Geophysical Year, the
largest ever cooperative scientific endeavor that resulted in the
launch of Sputnik. Although satellites were first launched under
the auspices of peaceful scientific cooperation, the potentially
world-ending implications of satellites and the rockets that
carried them was obvious to all. By the 1960s, the world faced the
prospect of nuclear testing in outer space, the placement of
weapons of mass destruction in orbit, and the militarization of the
moon. This book tells the story of how the United Nations tried to
seize the promise of peace through scientific cooperation and to
ward off the potential for war in the Space Age through the
adoption of the Outer Space Treaty, the Rescue and Return
Agreement, the Liability Convention, the Registration Convention,
and the Moon Agreement. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book
will be of interest to scholars in law, history and other fields
who are interested in the Cold War, the Space Race, and outer space
law.
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