Following the ATT debate
By Jeff Abramson (blogging from the UN)
“For 50 years, the Arms Control Association has educated citizens around the world to help create broad support for U.S.-led arms control and nonproliferation achievements.”
Twelve Years Since Mine Ban Treaty Entry Into Force
March 1 marks the 12th anniversary of the 1999 entry into force of the Mine Ban Treaty, which seeks to eliminate the use of one of the most destructive and indiscriminate weapons of war. It has been over a year since the Barack Obama administration began a comprehensive review of its landmines policy. During those months, U.S.
Arms Exporters React to Middle East Unrest
By Xiaodon Liang
Source: ABC News
Thinking Existentially about the Worldwide Threat
Image Source: AP
By Greg Thielmann
Ratifying the Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Protocols
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller (Image Source: U.S. State Dept.)
After New START, What's Next? Remarks at 3rd Annual "Nuclear Deterrence Summit"
Arms Control Association Executive Director Daryl G. Kimball discussed what's next after New START yesterday at the 3rd Annual "Nuclear Deterrence Summit," in Crystal City, VA. Below are his prepared remarks:
Worldwide Threat Assessment – What's New and What Isn't?
Robert Mueller, James Clapper, and Leon Panetta at House Permanent Select Committee Hearing (Image Source: Zimbio.com)
Midterm Grades on Obama Administration's Conventional Arms Control Record
By Jeff Abramson
During the week of Feb 7-11, 2011, we provided midterm grades on 5 aspects of the Obama administration's approach to conventional weapons arms control. Bookmark this post and come back over the next months and years to compare the grades you'd give to those earned at the two-year mark of the Obama administration.
House Budget Proposal Would Cut NNSA Nonproliferation Programs
by Daryl G. Kimball On Monday the Barack Obama Administration will roll out its budget request for the next fiscal year (2012). Those numbers will have a major impact on various programs related to the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) activities to maintain and refurbish existing nuclear weapons and upgrade the nuclear weapons complex, as well as NNSA initiatives to reduce the threat that nuclear weapons-usable material might be lost, stolen, or sold.
What about Egypt's WMD?
By Nik Gebben
If Egypt's political future remains uncertain, its nonproliferation future is even more so. The only known quantity on this issue is former IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei, who could potentially help steer Cairo in a stronger direction on nonproliferation. But it's still not clear what role, if any, he will play. Therefore, some of the "concerns" described in recent news reports seem premature.