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“Over the past 50 years, ACA has contributed to bridging diversity, equity, inclusion and that's by ensuring that women of color are elevated in this space.”
– Shalonda Spencer
Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation
June 2, 2022
Nuclear Testing
  • Concerns Mount Over Possible New Nuclear Tests
    October 1, 2023

    New construction at nuclear test facilities in China, Russia, and the United States is stoking global apprehension.

  • Civil Society Leaders Call on States to Reinforce the CTBT
    September 20, 2023

    Nongovernmental leaders in nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, as well as high-level former government officials, scientists, and downwinders are calling on governments take urgent action to counter growing threats to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the de facto global nuclear test moratorium.

  • US-Russia Nuclear Arms Control Talks `Without Preconditions’: Somebody Has to Make the First Move
    September 15, 2023

    National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke to the annual meeting of the Arms Control Association on June 2, ... Sullivan said just what needed to be said about the continuing risk of nuclear conflict: that the Biden administration would continue the long U.S. tradition of leadership in finding ways to reduce that danger.

  • Defending the De Facto Nuclear Test Ban
    September 1, 2023

    Although it has not yet formally entered into force, the CTBT is one of the most successful agreements in the long history of nuclear arms control and nonproliferation. But as with other critical nuclear risk reduction, nonproliferation, and arms control agreements, the CTBT is under threat due to inattention, diplomatic sclerosis, and worsening relations between nuclear-armed adversaries.

  • The Oppenheimer Legacy
    September 1, 2023

    The film Oppenheimer, about the physicist who spearheaded the Manhattan Project, landed in theaters at an apt moment.

  • Atoms and Ambiguity
    September 1, 2023

    If J. Robert Oppenheimer were still alive, what would he say about his legacy?

  • The People the Oppenheimer Film Erased
    September 1, 2023

    By omitting realistic narratives about the women and native people who were integral to the Manhattan Project, the film contributes to abstract, idealized notions of nuclear weapons.

  • Physicists Built the Bomb, Urged Restraint Too
    September 1, 2023

    During the Cold War and afterward, Soviet and U.S. physicists and other scientists repeatedly made a positive impact on international and national nuclear policies.

  • Lawmakers Seek Overdue Justice for Nuclear Victims
    September 1, 2023

    Renewed bipartisan efforts are underway to expand a federal program offering health care and compensation to victims of U.S. nuclear weapons testing. 

  • ‘Oppenheimer’, the bomb, and arms control, then and now
    July 29, 2023

    Christopher Nolan’s mesmerizing, thought-provoking, and sometimes disturbing feature-length film, Oppenheimer, provides a jolting, timely reminder for millions of moviegoers that nuclear weapons are anything but normal because the leaders of a few nations have the power to destroy us all. But it also leaves the viewers with lots of questions unaddressed in the film.

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