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I salute the Arms Control Association … for its keen vision of the goals ahead and for its many efforts to identify and to promote practical measures that are so vitally needed to achieve them. -

– Amb. Nobuyasu Abe
Former UN Undersecretary General for Disarmament Affairs
January 28, 2004
New START
  • Trump Arms Control Plans Draw Criticism
    June 3, 2019

    The Trump administration has expressed interest in new strategic arms control talks, but specific suggestions remain unknown.

  • The INF Treaty and New START Crisis and the Future of the NPT
    May 1, 2019

    Remarks by Daryl Kimball on behalf of NGO Representatives and Experts to the 2019 NPT PrepCom for the 2020 Review Conference at the United Nations in New York.

  • Trump Arms Control Gambit: Serious or a Poison Pill?
    May 1, 2019

    Smart U.S. leadership is an essential part of the nuclear risk reduction equation.

  • U.S. Seeks Broader Nuclear Arms Pact
    May 1, 2019

    Administration opens door to negotiations on new weapons, new partners.

  • U.S.-Russian Experts, Fmr. Officials Urge New START Extension, Renewed U.S.-Russian Strategic Dialogue
    April 12, 2019
    Executive director Daryl Kimball reports on the public statement from distinguished U.S. and Russian experts calling on U.S. and Russian officials to get back to the arms control negotiating table, with the first order of business being agreement on a five-year extension of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).
  • The NPT and the Conditions for Nuclear Disarmament
    April 1, 2019

    Fifty years ago, shortly after the conclusion of the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States and the Soviet Union launched the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). Negotiated in the midst of severe tensions, the SALT agreement and the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty were the first restrictions on the superpowers’ massive strategic offensive weapons, as well as on their emerging strategic defensive systems. The SALT agreement and the ABM Treaty slowed the arms race and opened a period of U.S.-Soviet detente that lessened the threat of nuclear war.

  • New START Extension Debated
    April 1, 2019

    U.S. and Russian officials see no quick and easy extension to New START.

  • U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control Watch, March 20, 2019
    March 20, 2019
    The United States is planning to flight-test two INF-Treaty range missiles this year, and Russia officially gives notice of its suspension of the agreement. Senior U.S. military officials have been testifying before Congress and discussing the INF Treaty and New START—another treaty whose future is in doubt due to U.S. and Russian concerns about the others' compliance.
  • How Congress Can Leverage Action on New START
    March 1, 2019

    Every U.S. president since John Kennedy has successfully concluded at least one agreement with Russia or the Soviet Union to reduce nuclear dangers. These agreements have helped to slash nuclear stockpiles, manage nuclear competition, and provide greater stability, thereby reducing the risk of nuclear catastrophe between the world’s two largest nuclear actors.

  • TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress No Funding for U.S. INF Missiles in Europe
    February 6, 2019

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