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Arms Control Today
Arms Control Today is a magazine published 10 times a year by the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC. Founded in 1972, its subjects are international arms control issues, peace and international affairs. Its audience includes policy makers, educators and the general public.
Articles from Vol. 40, No. 10, December
After New START: What Next?
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Assuming the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is ratified and enters into force, the question will be, "What next?" Speaking in Prague in April 2009, President Barack Obama called for reducing the role and number of nuclear weapons and...
Alleged Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Extradited
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After more than two years in Thai custody, Russian alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout was extradited to the United States and appeared Nov. 17 in a Manhattan federal court.Although believed to have supplied arms to conflict zones around the world, Bout...
Britain Leads the Way to Global Zero
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The United Kingdom, not the United States or Russia, is leading the way along a path to a possible world without nuclear weapons. The British not only are reducing the number of nuclear weapons, but in so doing are making an implicit statement, through...
India Seen Unlikely to Join NSG Soon
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In spite of a U.S. pledge of support for Indian membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), New Delhi is not likely to enter the group anytime soon, sources said last month.President Barack Obama made the commitment of support in a Nov. 8 joint...
LOOKING BACK: The Nuclear Freeze and Its Impact
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Thirty years ago, Randall Forsberg, a young defense and disarmament researcher, launched the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Designed to stop the drift toward nuclear war through a U.S.-Soviet agreement to stop the testing, production, and deployment...
NATO Approves Expanded Missile Defense
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The leaders of NATO's 28 countries last month endorsed a U.S. plan to provide missile defense coverage over all European member states. At its Nov. 19-20 summit in Lisbon, the alliance also formally invited Russia to participate in the planned system,...
NATO Revises Nuclear Policy
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NATO last month adopted a new Strategic Concept and a Summit Declaration that outline the alliance's future nuclear policy and establish two new processes to discuss deterrence and arms control.The two documents, issued at the alliance's Nov. 19-20 summit...
New START Now
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President Barack Obama, backed by the U.S. military, bipartisan national security leaders, and America's NATO allies, has made a strong case for approval of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) before the end of this year. New START would...
Nigeria Intercepts Iran Arms Shipment
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Nigeria has seized a weapons shipment from Iran that appears to violate a UN arms embargo, Nigerian Foreign Minister Henry Odein Ajumogobia told reporters in New York Nov. 16.After "preliminary investigations," Nigeria's permanent mission in New York...
N. Korea Reveals Uranium-Enrichment Plant
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North Korea unveiled a large uranium-enrichment pilot plant to a visiting team of former U.S. officials and academics Nov. 12, complicating efforts to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and potentially providing the country with another path to nuclear...
Obama Easing Export Controls on India
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The United States is pursuing several initiatives to loosen export controls and multilateral technology restrictions on India, U.S. officials announced during President Barack Obama's Nov. 6-9 trip to India.At a Nov. 8 joint press conference with Obama...
Obama Pushes for Vote on New START
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Months of quiet negotiations between the White House and Senate Minority Whip Jon KyI (R-Ariz.) on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) broke down in November after KyI announced he did not think there would be time to vote on the treaty...
Saudi Arms Deal Moves Forward
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A $60 billion U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia passed a key deadline last month without legislators blocking the deal although 198 House members signed a letter raising questions about it.The letter, coordinated by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman...
UK, France Sign Nuclear Collaboration Treaty
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The United Kingdom and France have agreed to cooperate in maintaining their nuclear weapons stockpiles, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said last month in a joint press conference.The Nov. 2 announcement came...
UN Tackles Disarmament Machinery
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Following a rare high-level meeting of UN members in September discussing ways to "revitalize" UN bodies addressing disarmament and nonproliferation, this year's First Committee deliberations paid considerable attention to the role and methods of the...
U.S. Consulting on Middle East Meeting
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U.S. consultations with Russia, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and other key parties to identify a facilitator and a host country for the planned 2012 conference on establishing a zone free of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the Middle...
Verification on the Road to Zero: Issues for Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement
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In many respects, the "verification" associated with reductions in U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons until now has been for practice. The size of the total arsenals that remained provided a powerful hedge against the imperfections of confidence-building...
