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  • Join ACA May 6th for Our Annual Meeting on North Korea, the Arms Trade Treaty, and Obama's Next Steps on Nuclear Risk Reduction
    ACA Events
    May 6, 2013

    Four years ago, President Barack Obama outlined an action plan to reduce nuclear weapons-related risks. Significant progress has been achieved but momentum has slowed, proliferation problems in North Korea and Iran persist, and the slow-moving arms race in South Asia continues.
  • Books of Note
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013
  • Special Report: UN General Assembly Adopts Arms Trade Treaty In Overwhelming Vote
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    UN member states on April 2 adopted the Arms Trade Treaty, a pact that, for the first time, mandates a common set of global standards for transfers of conventional arms. Now the focus turns to bringing the treaty into force.
  • North Korea Sets Conditions for Talks
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    North Korea announced its conditions for resuming negotiations over its nuclear program. U.S. officials called the terms unacceptable.
  • Four New States Join BWC
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    Four new states have acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) since January 2013, bringing the total number of states-parties to 170.
  • Countries to Discuss Space Code in Kiev
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    In an effort to garner wider international support for its proposed international code of conduct for outer space activities, the European Union announced last month that it plans to hold a series of consultations on the current draft.
  • Nuclear Powers Urge Progress on FMCT
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    The five countries that the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) recognizes as nuclear-weapon states last month “expressed their shared disappointment” that the Conference on Disarmament (CD) has not agreed to negotiate an international ban on the production of fissile material for use in nuclear weapons and “reiterated their support for the immediate start of negotiations” in the CD.
  • Missile Defense Talks Resume
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    In the wake of national security adviser Tom Donilon’s visit to Moscow, the United States and Russia plan to resume talks on missile defense cooperation after a two-year break.
  • P5+1 Package Seeks Transparency in Iran
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    The proposal that six world powers brought to negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program contains transparency elements that would require Tehran to address allegations of possible activities related to making a nuclear bomb, sources said.
  • U.S. Revisits Plutonium Disposition Plan
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    The Obama administration is planning to slow down—and perhaps eventually stop—construction of the facility that is the centerpiece of the U.S. effort to get rid of plutonium withdrawn from its nuclear weapons program.