Subject(s): peace -- International relations -- Space weapons -- International law -- Space security -- Peaceful use of outer space -- Guarantee space security and assurance, International legal approaches and the role of the conference on disarmament, Transparency and confidence building -- Space weapons in the 2005 US defence budget request -- Force projection and space-based ABM system -- Space control and autonomous proximity operations -- Current legal regime governing the use of outer space -- Legal and treaty aspects, Norm of peaceful use, legal regime -- Space assurance or space weapons -- Space debris -- Risk reduction and monitoring in outer space -- Arms control -- Space and security: existing international legal framework -- Multilateral legal dimension -- Bilateral arms control agreements, Institutional framework -- Law and the military use of outer space -- Restraint regimes for space : Untied states perspective -- Space history , Bush administration space policy ,. Congress and Military, Possible routes for the conference on disarmament -- Incentives for space security: technology, transparency and compliance -- Technology of space weapons , Nuclear explosions in orbit, Directed energy power, Kinetic energy weapon, Vulnerability of civilian satellites and infrastructure , Active and passive measures to improve space security, Strengthening existing arms control treaties, Proposal for banning space weapons