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"[Arms Control Today is] Absolutely essential reading for the upcoming Congressional budget debate on the 2018 NPR and its specific recommendations ... well-informed, insightful, balanced, and filled with common sense."

– Frank Klotz
former Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration
March 7, 2018
Treaties and Agreements
  • Entry into Force of Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty a Step Forward
    January 21, 2021

    For the first time since the invention of the atomic bomb, nuclear weapons development, production, possession, use, threat of use, and stationing of another country’s nuclear weapons on a states party's national territory will all be expressly prohibited in a global treaty. 

  • Nuclear Challenges for the Biden Administration in the First 100 Days
    January 19, 2021

    Analysts will review the most consequential nuclear weapons challenges that the incoming administration will need to address in its first 100 days and outline their recommendations as described in the new report, "Nuclear Challenges for the Biden Administration in the First 100 Days."

  • Nuclear Challenges for the New U.S. Presidential Administration: The First 100 Days and Beyond
    January 15, 2021
    In this analysis we have outlined what we believe to be the five most important sets of nuclear weapons policy challenges and decisions that the new Biden administration will need to address in its first 100 days and beyond, along with recommendations for effectively dealing with each of these policy challenges.
  • Nonproliferation Experts Warn Biden on Urgent Need for U.S. Reentry into Iran Nuclear Deal
    January 14, 2021

    Signatories of the letter include a former IAEA director-general, two former special representatives to the president of the United States on nonproliferation, and several former high-level officials from the National Security Council, the National Intelligence Council, and the State Department, among other agencies.

  • Biden’s First Challenge: Extend New START
    January 11, 2021

    Until the Trump era, every U.S. president since John Kennedy has successfully concluded at least one agreement with the Soviet Union, or later Russia, to reduce the dangers posed by nuclear weapons to the United States and the world.

  • Returning to Progress on Iran
    January 1, 2021

    President Joe Biden has a narrow window of opportunity after his inauguration to head off a nuclear crisis with Iran by stabilizing the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran and laying the groundwork for future negotiations on the country’s nuclear program.

  • Reviewing the NPT: An Interview With Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen
    January 1, 2021

    The president-designate of the 10th NPT Review Conference discusses the political and logistical hurdles facing the delayed meeting.

  • First UN Resolution Holds Lessons for Latest Nuclear Treaty
    January 1, 2021

    Approved 75 years ago, UN Resolution 1(I) illustrated challenges still facing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

  • Stepping Back from Unilateralism
    January 1, 2021

    The nominee for secretary of state discusses some of the Biden administration's foreign policy principles.

  • Iran Enriches Uranium to Higher Levels
    January 1, 2021

    Iran has begun to produce 20 percent-enriched uranium, significantly reducing the work needed to make nuclear weapons material.

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