Recent ACA Issue Briefs- Renewed U.S.-Led Nuclear Weapons Risk Reduction Steps Are Necessary and Overdue June 14, 2013 Tim Farnsworth
- East Coast Missile Defense: A Rush to Failure June 10, 2013 Tim Farnsworth
- Closing the Deal on a Robust Global Arms Trade Treaty March 11, 2013 Tim Farnsworth
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Category Archives: Missile Defense
Whither Strategic Arms Control: Clues from Carnegie
By Greg Thielmann Last week’s 2011 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. provided some revealing perspectives on the challenges and opportunities ahead for future strategic arms control agreements between the United States and Russia. The dynamics of strategic … Continue reading
Kyl Mischaracterizes ACA on Missile Defense
By Tom Collina The Arms Control Association often finds itself at odds with Senate Republican Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.). After all, Sen. Kyl led opposition to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1999 and to New START last year, … Continue reading
Posted in CTBT, Missile Defense, New START, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Weapons
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Russia Approves New START–Now What?
By Tom Z. Collina New START is reaching the finish line. After three votes in Russia’s lower house of parliament, or Duma, Russia’s upper house, the Federation Council, gave unanimous final approval today. The U.S. Senate approved New START on … Continue reading
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Tagged Conventional Arms, CTBT, Missile Defense, New START, Russia, Russia-U.S.
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New START Opponents Scrape Bottom
By Tom Z. Collina and Daryl G. Kimball In a desperate last-ditch effort to derail a likely Senate vote on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), a smattering of treaty opponents led by the controversial Center for Security … Continue reading
Romney Is Wrong on New START (Again)
By Daryl G. Kimball Once-upon-a-time presidential candidate, Mitt Romney has once again urged the Senate to “Stop New START.” Once again he shows he’s getting some bad advice. Romney’s latest column in The Boston Globe is full of misrepresentations, factual … Continue reading
Missile Defense Cooperation Is Not Missile Defense Limitation
By Daryl G. Kimball The Washington Times is running a misleading story this morning that mischaracterizes the discussions between the United States and Russia on potential cooperation on missile defense, implying that these “secret” talks could “limit” missile defense, and … Continue reading
Debating Missile Defense
During the final panel of ACA’s “Next Steps in Arms Control” conference today, the discussion turned to missile defense. Panelists discussed the upcoming NATO summit in Lisbon, the Obama administration’s Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA), and the prospects for NATO-Russia cooperation … Continue reading
Lower the Curtain on the Airborne Laser
By Matt Sugrue The Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense system failed its second shoot-down test in a row yesterday. The Missile Defense Agency, which oversees the ABL program, released a statement saying that investigators are looking at the “intermittent performance … Continue reading
NATO and Missile Defense: Conspicuous Vagueness
By Scoville Fellow Rob Golan-Vilella Recently, the issue of NATO missile defense capabilities has come to the fore. The United States is hoping that at November’s NATO summit in Lisbon, the alliance will officially approve a plan to turn the … Continue reading
Obama’s Missile Defense Plans Continue to Advance
By ACA Intern Daniel Salisbury The Washington Post recently reported: The U.S. military is on the verge of activating a partial missile shield over southern Europe, part of an intensifying global effort to build defenses against Iranian missiles amid a … Continue reading
