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Week Ahead March 10-17: Budget Details; Ukraine & New START; P5+1/Iran Talks Resume
The following are some of the key arms control dates and developments to watch in the coming week. For more news and analysis on these and other weapons-related security issues, consider subscribing to ACA’s monthly journal Arms Control Today, which … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Europe, New START, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, The Week Ahead
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Ukraine, Russia, and the NPT
By Daryl G. Kimball (UPDATED: March 9) President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send Russian military forces into the Crimean region of Ukraine earlier this month—on the basis of the claim that Ukraine’s discredited former President Viktor Yanukovich requested Russian intervention—has … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Europe, New START, Non-proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Russia
Tagged Crimea, NPT, Putin, Ukraine
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Week Ahead March 3-9: IAEA mtg; Pentagon Budget; Nuclear Security; Ukraine & the NPT
As the crisis in Ukraine continues to dominate global attention and the news headlines, several other arms control developments of significance in the coming week. For more news and analysis on these and other weapons-related security issues, consider subscribing to … Continue reading
The Week Ahead, Jan 27-Feb. 2: State of the Union
This bulletin highlights significant events in the world of arms control in the coming days, as compiled by staff and friends of the Arms Control Association. For more news and analysis on these and other weapons-related security issues, consider subscribing to ACA’s … Continue reading
United States Lagging on New START Implementation
By Greg Thielmann The latest semi-annual exchange of data under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) shows continuing U.S. lethargy in implementing the modest reductions agreed to when it joined Russia in signing the treaty three-and-a-half years ago. One should … Continue reading
Limited Test Ban Treaty Turns 50
Note: The following essay by Daryl G. Kimball and Wade Boese was originally published in the October 2003 issue of Arms Control Today as “Limited Test Ban Treaty Turns 40″ Like all first steps, it was long awaited, tentative, and … Continue reading
Posted in CTBT, Europe, Non-proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Russia
Tagged Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy, Limited Test Ban Treaty, Nikita Khrushchev
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Senate Scales Back the B61
By Tom Z. Collina In a victory for fiscal sanity, Senate appropriators today cut the budget for the B61 gravity bomb, a $10 billion program to upgrade a weapon that President Obama said last week he wants to reduce. Given … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Nuclear Weapons, Tactical Nuclear Weapons
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U.S. Signature Needed to Advance Global Arms Trade Treaty
By Daryl G. Kimball On Monday June 3, leaders from dozens of states will gather at the United Nations in New York to sign the new Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT will—for the first time— establish common international … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arms Trade, Asia, Conventional Weapons, Europe, Middle East
Tagged Arms Trade, arms trade treaty
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The Prague Nuclear Agenda, Part Two
By Tom Z. Collina Four years after the historic speech in Prague laying out his nuclear policy priorities, President Barack Obama must now decide which issues to focus on in his second—and last—term. The administration accomplished many important arms control … Continue reading
NATO agrees on new arms control body
By Oliver Meier (BERLIN) On Feb. 8, NATO agreed on the mandate of a new arms control body. Allies tasked the “Special Advisory and Consultative Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Committee” to prepare a dialogue on confidence building and transparency … Continue reading
