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  • Civilian Control Of Nuclear Weapons
    Arms Control Today
    May 8, 2009

    Ever since the Manhattan Project, which built the first U.S. atomic bombs during World War II, tensions have persisted among civilian and military leaders over the control of nuclear weapons. Those tensions are highlighted anew with a proposal to move the U.S. nuclear weapons program from the Department of Energy to the Department of Defense. President Barack Obama this year asked the Office of Management and Budget to study the shift and report on the pros and cons by September. The concept has raised concern on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. Former Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary recently said that civilian control is good public policy and a good model for other countries to follow. (Continue)
  • New Members of the Obama Administration
    Documents & Reports
    May 7, 2009

    In the past several months, President Barack Obama and his leading cabinet members and advisers, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, UN Ambassador Susan Rice, and national security adviser Jim Jones, have set an ambitious arms control agenda focusing on the need to extend START, prevent proliferation in Iran and North Korea, and secure loose nuclear weapons and fissile material from theft or unauthorized use. (Continue
  • Realizing the Promise of the CTBT
    ACA Events
    May 5, 2009

    Statement by Representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to the Preparatory Meeting for the 2010 Review Conference for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
  • TRANSCRIPT: Carnegie Endowment Conference Panel on the Future of the CTBT
    ACA Events
    April 30, 2009

    Moderator - ACA Executive Director Daryl Kimball Speakers- Sidney Drell, Ambassador James Goodby, and Ambassador Tibor Tóth
  • TRANSCRIPT - NEXT STEPS IN U.S.-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR ARMS REDUCTIONS: THE START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS AND BEYOND
    Transcripts
    April 30, 2009

    Speakers: Daryl Kimball, Hans M. Kristensen, Linton Brooks, and Greg Thielmann
  • Next Steps in U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Reductions: The START Follow-On Negotiations and Beyond
    ACA Events
    April 27, 2009

    Panelists - Hans Kristensen, Ambassador Linton Brooks, Greg Thielmann, and Daryl G. Kimball
  • Remarks of President Barack Obama
    Documents & Reports
    April 5, 2009

    "One of those issues that I will focus on today is fundamental to our nations, and to the peace and security of the world - the future of nuclear weapons in the 21st century." (Continue)
  • Arms Control Association Praises Obama's Commitment to a Nuclear Weapons Free World
    Press Room
    April 5, 2009

    In a stirring speech delivered in Prague today, President Barack Obama delivered a major address in which he outlined his vision for strengthening the global effort to curb the spread of nuclear weapons, moving forward on long-overdue disarmament measures, preventing nuclear terrorism, and he stated "clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." (Continue)
  • Nuclear Refurbishment Problems Reported
    Arms Control Today
    March 31, 2009
  • NNSA Completes B61 Refurbishment
    Arms Control Today
    March 4, 2009

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