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  • 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.
  • Airborne Laser Mothballed
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    After 16 years and $5 billion, the Airborne Laser, once touted as “America’s first light saber,” has been canceled.
  • Missile Defense Report Aims for Trust
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    Seeking to break the logjam in U.S.-Russian efforts to cooperate on missile defense deployments in Europe, a group of retired senior national security officials released a report in February offering an approach to building greater confidence between Moscow and NATO.
  • 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.
  • Turkey to Host NATO Missile Defense Radar
    Arms Control Today
    September 30, 2011

    After an extended delay, the U.S. Department of State announced on Sept. 2 that Turkey had agreed to host an early-warning radar as a key part of the European Phased Adaptive Approach, the Obama administration’s plan for missile defense in Europe.
  • Missile Defense Cooperation Stalls
    Arms Control Today
    July 7, 2011

    Russia and the United States were unable to strike a deal on missile defense cooperation during a June 8-9 meeting in Brussels. The effort stalled, officials said, because Russia remains wary that the European interceptor system will undermine its security.
  • Missile Defense Cooperation: Seizing the Opportunity
    Issue Briefs
    May 24, 2011

    Volume 2, Issue 5, May 24, 2011

    U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet at the G8 Summit in Deauville, France later this week, where they are expected to talk about cooperation on ballistic missile defense. Cooperation with Russia would strengthen U.S. security by enhancing our capabilities to detect a potential missile launch from Iran.
  • Missile Defense Test a ‘Success’: Pentagon
    Arms Control Today
    May 3, 2011

    The missile interceptor system that the Obama administration plans to deploy in Europe succeeded in a key test by using remote tracking data to intercept an intermediate-range missile.
  • China Releases Defense White Paper
    Arms Control Today
    May 3, 2011

    China formally released its seventh defense white paper March 30, providing an overview of China’s military strategy, its security threats, and its arms control policies.