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“Right after I graduated, I interned with the Arms Control Association. It was terrific.”

– George Stephanopolous
ABC News
January 1, 2005
Arms Control Now

The following articles and essays provide additional insight into current developments and issues which our staff and experts are following.


  • CBO Report Strengthens Case for New START Extension
    August 28, 2020

    A new CBO report eviscerates the claim by the Trump administration’s top arms control official that the United States can spend Russia and China “into oblivion” in a new arms race.

  • The Dangerous Consequences of Trump’s Plan to Snapback UN Sanctions on Iran
    August 17, 2020

    Attempting to unilaterally snapback sanctions would be a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s already irresponsible policy toward Iran that could have serious ramifications for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the future of the Security Council.

  • Civil Society Letter on Humanitarian Disarmament Advocates Path Ahead
    August 11, 2020

    The humanitarian disarmament approach has led to four treaties and inspired cooperative engagement between civil society, international organizations, and like-minded governments which provides "a better alternative for the future."

  • OPCW Rebukes Syria’s Chemical Weapons Program
    July 14, 2020

    The executive council’s comprehensive decision hailed dissent and dissatisfaction from certain member states that appear intent on shielding Syria from accountability for its egregious violations of the CWC.

  • Iran’s Illicit Arms Transfers Do Not Justify U.S. Snapback
    June 26, 2020

    Though concerning, possible violations of arms-related provisions of Resolution 2231 by Iran are not grounds for the unilateral U.S. actions to prevent the embargo’s expiration.

  • Iran’s Failure to Comply with IAEA Investigation Raises Concerns
    June 8, 2020

    The June 5 IAEA report provides additional detail about the agency's investigation into possible undeclared nuclear materials and activities tied to Iran's past nuclear weapons development efforts and noted that Tehran has yet to comply with the agency’s requests for information and access.

  • IAEA Report Shows Iran’s Stockpile of Uranium Grows
    June 8, 2020

    The IAEA's latest report assessing Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal noted that Tehran’s stockpile of low enriched uranium continues to increase beyond limits set by the accord.

  • Tear Gas is Banned in War. It is Time to Ban its Domestic Use.
    June 5, 2020

    While the Chemical Weapons Convention bans the use of toxic chemicals in warfare because they do not discriminate between combatants and non-combatants, but carves out an exception for their use for "domestic riot control purposes" despite their indiscriminate use against non-violent protestors and those engaged in acts of violence alike.

  • Responses to Audience Questions from April 29 New START Briefing
    May 4, 2020

    The Arms Control Association hosted a briefing on "The Future of New START and U.S. National Security" on April 29. Here are some answers to additional questions that participants submitted but that the speakers were unable to address due to time constraints.

  • OPCW Investigation Confirms Syria Responsible for Three Chemical Attacks in 2017
    April 13, 2020

    An inaugural report released April 8 by the OPCW's new Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) attributes a series of chemical weapons attacks in Syria in March 2017 to the Syrian Air Force. The new OPCW team has a mandate to assign responsibility for chemical attacks identified by the OPCW's Fact-Finding Mission reports that were not investigated by the United Nations-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism, which was dissolved in 2017.

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