Hon. Peter J. Beshar
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Before we go there, John, maybe just pausing for a moment on the safety zones.
You know, what's the principle behind the safety zones?
And really, the emphasis is on safety.
Both the United States and China have spoken about putting a nuclear reactor on the face of the moon.
In the case of the United States, a nuclear fission reactor.
And it's complicated enough to put a nuclear reactor on terra firma in the Earth.
But to do it in the forbidding environment of the moon is extremely complicated, obviously.
And so the goal of the safety zone is trying to create some buffer areas.
So both any risks that might occur from one installation or location...
wouldn't cause harmful interference on another area or somebody else's actions wouldn't then cause harm to, let's say, the astronauts or the humans who are trying to support some of these activities.
And so I think the principle of a safety zone is extremely sound.
Then the question turns to, OK, well, how do you implement those in practice?
And there again, the Artemis Accords lay out a number of sensible steps of public notification that if you plan to establish an installation, then you ought to publicize that fact so that others can be aware of that and plan accordingly.
You may have seen that the NASA administrator recently made an announcement about the moon base perimeter and what the preliminary plans might be of the United States.
And then also the focus is supposed to be on scientific discovery and technological innovation.
and that these are temporary concepts.
They're not permanent keep-out zones.
And I'll go and address the question that you posed about the mismatch, because I think it's an important one.
We've been speaking about Article 2 and the non-appropriation clause.
Article 4 of the Outer Space Treaty talks about essentially a prohibition on nuclear weapons being placed in orbit around the Earth.
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