By Jeff Abramson
In a live broadcast at 11:30 this morning, 
the State Department will release its annual human rights report. Among many hopes of what will become of this important yearly assessment, one is that it will spur an examination of U.S. arms transfer policies .
By Xiaodon Liang
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh (Image Source: Government of Yemen)
President Obama in 2009 at Hradcany Square Prague, Czech Republic (Image Source Christian Science Monitor)
By Greg Thielmann
By Jeff Abramson
By Tom Z. Collina and Daryl G. Kimball The Obama administration is "committed" to working with Senators of both parties to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), National Security Advisor Tom Donilon said March 29, "just as we did for New START." This was one of the most significant, high-level statements from a senior administration official on the test ban since April 2009, when President Obama called on the Senate to reconsider the treaty.
By Jeff Abramson As the year progresses, we'll revisit the mid-term grades given the Obama administration on their conventional weapons policies. For the moment, the D grade on cluster munitions remains unchanged because U.S. policy is unchanged, but there is much happening: Libya
RS-24 Yars ICBM, Associated Press
By Greg Thielmann
By Alfred Nurja
Image Source: CNS
Robert J. Einhorn, Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, Department of State
