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"Though we have acheived progress, our work is not over. That is why I support the mission of the Arms Control Association. It is, quite simply, the most effective and important organization working in the field today." 

– Larry Weiler
Former U.S.-Russian arms control negotiator
August 7, 2018
Missiles and Missile Defense
  • December 1, 2023

    On Sunday, Nov. 20, 1983, I left my college dorm to visit my parents’ home in the suburbs of Oxford, Ohio. That evening, along with some 100 million other Americans, we witnessed two hours of stunning television that would mobilize the nation, as well as some of its leaders, to take meaningful steps to reduce the nuclear danger.

  • December 1, 2023

    The Defense Department unexpectedly announced plans to develop a new variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb.

  • December 1, 2023

    Israel used its Arrow-3 missile defense system to shoot down a ballistic missile.

  • November 1, 2023

    The experience of the Cold War teaches us that an unconstrained arms race has no winners, only losers. Leaders in Beijing, Moscow, and Washington need to engage in nuclear risk reduction talks, negotiate sensible and verifiable reductions of their arsenals, and refrain from building new destabilizing types of weapons rather than proceed down the dangerous path of unconstrained nuclear competition.

  • November 1, 2023

    For the bipartisan commission charged with recommending how the United States should deal simultaneously with two nuclear-capable adversaries, the “answer to an arms race is an arms race.”

  • November 1, 2023

    Forty-eight states, concerned about Iran’s export of missiles and drones to Russia and other countries, affirmed plans to work to limit the transfers.

  • November 1, 2023

    After long resisting, the United States delivered ATACMS, which Ukraine’s president said were used successfully on the battlefield.

  • November 1, 2023

    The U.S. Defense Department says nuclear, chemical, and biological threats have changed and increased significantly since 2014.

  • November 1, 2023

    The House and Senate versions of the 2024 defense authorization act zero out the Biden administration request for R&D on the ARRW system.

  • November 1, 2023

    China Continues Nuclear Buildup

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