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  • Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces Under New START
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    April 4, 2013

    April 2013
  • Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: Russia
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    April 1, 2013

    April 2013
  • Nunn-Lugar Program’s Future Uncertain
    Arms Control Today
    November 2, 2012

    Moscow said that it would not sign a U.S. draft agreement to extend the landmark Nunn-Lugar program to dismantle and protect former Soviet weapons of mass destruction. The United States hopes to extend the agreement, which expires next year.
  • Russia to Field New Heavy Missile by 2018
    Arms Control Today
    October 2, 2012

    As part of its declared effort to respond to U.S.-NATO plans to field missile interceptors in eastern Europe by 2020, Russia said in September that it would deploy a new “heavy” intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in 2018.
  • Pentagon Defends Arms Buy From Russia
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    The Department of Defense is responding to congressional criticism of its purchase of helicopters from a Russian firm that also is supplying arms to the Syrian government, saying the aircraft are central to U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and have qualities that the alternatives do not
  • The NATO Summit: Recasting the Debate Over U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2012

    Oliver Meier is a senior researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg and international representative of the Arms Control Association. Paul Ingram is executive director of the British American Security Information Council. The authors would like to thank the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for its support, which made research for this article possible.
  • Russia Back Below Treaty’s Warhead Limits
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2012

    Russia is back under the nuclear warhead limit of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), according to the third data exchange with the United States under the treaty.
  • Op-Ed: Opponents of Nuclear Cuts Misread Trends
    Press Room
    April 18, 2012

    The press recently reported that the Pentagon is preparing options for President Barack Obama as part of the Nuclear Posture Review implementation study. The mere notion of restructuring U.S. nuclear forces unleashed panicked reactions from Capitol Hill’s most ardent nuclear weapons enthusiasts.
  • Accord Seen Near on Verifying Disposition
    Arms Control Today
    April 3, 2012

    Russia and the United States could conclude verification arrangements by the end of the year for their agreement on disposition of surplus weapons plutonium, a U.S. official said last month.
  • ACA Senior Fellow speaks about Territorial Missile Defense at Paris Conference
    ACA Events
    March 14, 2012

    Prepared Remarks by Greg Thielmann, Senior Fellow, Arms Control Association, delivered March 6, 2012 at the Salle de la Commission de la Defense in Paris at a conference sponsored by the: Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg; Institut de Relations Internationales et Strategiques; British American Security Information Council; and Arms Control Association.
  • Cooperating With Russia on Missile Defense: A New Proposal
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    Russia has opposed U.S. ballistic missile defense plans for decades, and differences over that issue currently are a major irritant in U.S.-Russian relations. There have been numerous proposals for U.S.-Russian and NATO-Russian missile defense cooperation, but often they lack reciprocity and fail to significantly improve the security of all countries involved. This article’s proposal for a joint NATO-Russian early-warning radar located in central Russia provides genuine security benefits for all countries, improves strategic stability, and involves potential industrial partnerships, which ought to be of interest to Russian semiconductor firms.
  • Opponents of U.S. Nuclear Cuts: Still Being Chased by the Russian Bear?
    Issue Briefs
    February 24, 2012

    Volume 3, Issue 1, February 24, 2012

    Last week, the press reported on Defense Department options for Presidential guidance that were being prepared as part of the Nuclear Policy Review implementation study. The notion that the President might consider deep cuts in U.S. nuclear forces unleashed some intemperate reactions that brought to mind Shakespeare's most famous stage direction (in "The Winter's Tale"): "Exit, pursued by a bear."
  • U.S.-Russia Missile Defense Talks Deadlock
    Arms Control Today
    January 12, 2012

    A year-long U.S.-Russian effort to find ways to cooperate on European missile defense ground to a halt in November and December, just months before the NATO summit in Chicago this May and in the midst of presidential election seasons in both countries.
  • Accord Reached on CWC’s 2012 Deadline
    Arms Control Today
    January 12, 2012

    Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) voted overwhelmingly on Dec. 1 to approve a document that reaffirms the importance of the treaty’s April 2012 deadline for destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles but does not say countries that failed to meet the deadline would be violating the terms of the pact.
  • U.S. Suspends CFE Treaty Implementation
    Arms Control Today
    December 2, 2011

    In response to the long-running dispute with Russia over the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty regime, the U.S. Department of State announced in a Nov. 22 press release that Washington “would cease carrying out certain obligations” under the CFE Treaty with regard to Russia, putting the future of the 1990 pact in serious doubt.