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– President Joe Biden

June 2, 2022

Tony Fleming

Addressing the Disarmament Deficit

Authored by Daryl Kimball, Kathy Crandall Robinson, and Tony Fleming on October 26, 2021

Inside the Arms Control Association October 2021 This week (Oct. 24-29) marks United Nations Disarmament Week, which seeks to promote awareness and a better understanding of disarmament issues. The annual observance was first called for at the UN’s 1978 special session on disarmament. Since we were founded 50 years ago, the Arms Control Association has been a leading force pushing, prodding, and promoting effective action on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament—every day of every week, every year. We’ve made a difference—but nuclear competition and global tensions are growing once...

A Call for Changes to Outdated Nuclear Thinking

Authored by Daryl Kimball, Kathy Crandall Robinson, and Tony Fleming on September 22, 2021

Inside the Arms Control Association September 2021 As the Pentagon begins a major assessment of U.S. nuclear weapons policies and capabilities, known as the Nuclear Posture Review, the Arms Control Association and more than two dozen other nuclear experts and disarmament organizations are calling on President Biden “to effect significant and long-overdue changes in U.S. nuclear policy that would dramatically reduce the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons to our nation and the world.” In a detailed September 15 letter organized by the Arms Control Association and sent to the White...

A Good Start, But Serious Challenges Lay Ahead

Authored by Daryl Kimball, Kathy Crandall Robinson, and Tony Fleming on July 30, 2021

Inside the Arms Control Association July 2021 For nearly a decade, the nuclear arms control and disarmament process has been at a standstill, spending on nuclear weapons has risen to obscene levels and competition between nuclear-armed states has been accelerating. As a result, the risk of nuclear war is increasing. In response, the Arms Control Association has been working to get the U.S. and other major powers to step back from the nuclear brink. We’re making some progress - even as we deal with an unexpected new challenge . At their June 16 summit, President Joe Biden and President...

Biden and Putin Summit: A Chance to Move Back from the Brink

Authored by Daryl Kimball, Kathy Crandall Robinson, and Tony Fleming on June 1, 2021

This week’s summit meeting in Geneva is a pivotal opportunity for the leaders of the world’s two largest nuclear weapons possessors to reduce the growing risk of nuclear conflict and get back on track to reduce their bloated nuclear stockpiles. For months and weeks, we’ve been working hard to highlight and explain what can be done on strategic stability and arms control and to build political support for meaningful post-summit follow-through actions by President Biden and President Putin. Last week, our board chair Tom Countryman and I met with NSC staff at the White House and delivered a...

Arms Control ‘David’ v Nuclear Lobby ‘Goliath’

Authored by Daryl Kimball, Kathy Crandall Robinson, and Tony Fleming on April 1, 2021

Since the Arms Control Association was founded in 1971, we have taken on some consequential issues. Despite being a small organization, we have been able to punch above our weight class and make a difference by catalyzing action, informing better policy decisions, and holding decision-makers accountable to reduce the dangers posed by the world’s most dangerous weapons. Now, we are in a battle with the powerful "ICBM Lobby" over the size and the scope of the proposed $1.7 trillion U.S. nuclear weapons modernization program. Bill Hartung writes in an article in the forthcoming issue of Arms...

Pressing for Progress on Nonproliferation

Authored by Daryl Kimball, Kathy Crandall Robinson, and Tony Fleming on March 1, 2021

The Arms Control Association team remains in the thick of the debate over how and why the United States and Iran should return to compliance with the historic 2015 nuclear deal. Since President Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reimposed U.S. sanctions, Iran has retaliated by taking steps to ramp up its nuclear program and, in the process, has exceeded key limits set by the agreement. Both governments say they want to return to compliance, but they have not yet agreed as to how. With each passing day, the window of opportunity to avert a renewed nuclear crisis is narrowing. As I told...

New Administration, New Congress, New Possibilities

Authored by Daryl Kimball, Kathy Crandall Robinson, and Tony Fleming on January 1, 2021

The 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, already faces a daunting array of challenges left behind by his predecessor—including major decisions to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons and proliferation that require prompt action. Biden’s national and foreign policy team, along with the new Congress, have an opportunity and a responsibility to restore U.S. global leadership to reduce the threats posed by the world’s most dangerous weapons. Our new Arms Control Association report, Nuclear Challenges for the Biden Administration in the First 100 Days , written by our senior policy...

Can Biden ‘Build Back Better’ on Arms Control?

Authored by Daryl Kimball, Kathy Crandall Robinson, and Tony Fleming on December 1, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden possesses a strong personal commitment to effective nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament that dates back to his early days in the Senate. In 1979, during the height of the Cold War, then-Sen. Biden spoke at the Arms Control Association Annual Dinner about “ The Necessity of Nuclear Arms Control ,” noting that “pursuing arms control is not a luxury or a sign of weakness, but an international responsibility and a national necessity.” He wrote a feature article for Arms Control Today in 1986 titled “ The Five Myths of Reagan Arms Control ,”...

Annual Meeting Table with Zoom Links

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12:30 p.m.	Welcome	Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director Thomas Countryman, Chair of the Board	Join Session
12:40 p.m.	Opening Keynote	"Restoring U.S. Leadership on Nuclear Weapons Risk Reduction" Senator Jeff Merkley, (D-Oregon)	Join Session
1:00 p.m.	Panel	"Diversifying and Strengthening the Disarmament Movement," with Amb. Bonnie Jenkins (WCAPS), Cecili Thompson Williams, (Beyond the Bomb) Vincent Intondi (Montgomery College), and Daryl Kimball (ACA), moderated by Lilly Adams (ACA Board).	Join Session
1:50 p.m.	Breakout Sessions	"The Future of the U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control Regime," with Rose Gottemoeller moderated by Shannon Bugos	Join Session
		"Repairing the Broken U.S. Policy on Iran," with Kelsey Davenport	Join Session
		“Strengthening the NPT and the 10th Review Conference: a conversation with Amb. Gustavo Zlauvinen," moderated by Daryl Kimball	Join Session
2:15 p.m.	Breakout Sessions	“Re-evaluating U.S. Nuclear Weapons Modernization Plan” with Kingston Reif, moderated by Aaron Mehta with Defense News	Join Session
		"After New START: Engaging Other Nuclear-Armed States in the Disarmament Enterprise" with Tom Countryman, ACA Board Chair, and Prof. Heather Williams with Kings College, moderated by Julia Masterson	Join Session
		“The Impact of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons” with Amb. Elaine Whyte Gómez, moderated by Zia Mian, Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security and Arms Control Association Board	Join Session
2:40 p.m.	Remarks	Seven Ways You Can Be Part of the Solution Kathy Crandall Robinson, Chief Operations Officer	Join Session
2:50 p.m.	Closing Keynote	Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General, UN Office of Disarmament Affairs	Join Session
3:10 p.m.	Closing Remarks	Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, (D-NY) Thomas Countryman, Chair of the Board	Join Session

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Restoring Leadership on Arms Control

Authored by Daryl Kimball, Kathy Crandall Robinson, and Tony Fleming on November 1, 2020

Wow. We did not expect 2020 to go the way it did. It has been a tragic, challenging, and stressful year. Now, as we look towards 2021, we have a chance to turn the page in some important areas. The election of Joe Biden creates the potential for significant progress on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. But meaningful and durable changes will not come easily. And the next U.S. administration and other world leaders will need to move quickly to make decisions on a range of issues. These decisions and outcomes—and the efforts we make to influence them—will shape the international...