And, of course, it takes a special kind of ignorance for a US President to announce this immediately following a state visit to Japan.

Other sources, to name a few:

- Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure (2023) muse.jhu.edu/book/119293
- The Epilogue to Domination and Resistance: The United States and the Marshall Islands during the Cold War (2016)
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

At this point, she knows most of my shit too. She knows too much, maybe.

And, just while I’m thinking about it, @bleddb.bsky.social’s point raises a really interesting throughline of using the coastline to theorise the commons. Justinian obviously, and also many Aboriginal ways of knowing (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

Same re: the space environment!! I get replies as if I’m trying to require ecological analysis of Saturn, and not basic environmental review for massive orbital infrastructure projects on 530km orbits visible to the naked eye

But also, it’s almost funny how in my own research, I’ll double down on notions like ‘mapping out space regions is a precursor to their enclosure’… and then in lectures, I’ll have a slide full of circles and dotted lines to show orbits to scale. 🙃

Amazing!! I originally formulated that above point to show generalist int’l lawyers, students, & peer reviewers how strange it is that they see space (law) as novel, distant, and/or intangible, but use (the law of) the sea as the standard & proximate framework to discuss int’l law in the commons.

Omg international law and Hadestown!!

(That said, I do chuckle at how far the US & UK went to consult with / involve / placate the FRG - the US even let Bonn co-author part of its UNGA speech on the OST, all to avoid a blowup.

And then *Tanzania* stood up, rather out of nowhere, & *excoriated* the OST - based on 'all states'... 😂)

This read as a non sequitur until I got some context - namely, West Germany kept making it a srs problem behind the scenes, incl by threatening to undermine nuclear nonproliferation. Which like, wtf, but hey.

Context 1: nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/217...
Context 2: nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/217...

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