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“We continue to count on the valuable contributions of the Arms Control Association.”

– President Joe Biden
June 2, 2022
Missiles and Missile Defense
  • January 11, 2024

    Congress authorized $260 million for a new nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile for fiscal year 2024, despite the Biden administration’s clear desire not to pursue the weapon’s development.

  • January 11, 2024

    The move to discontinue the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon was expected after a string of testing failures. 

  • January 11, 2024

    Global Partnership Reaffirms Support for Ukraine

  • January 11, 2024

    Russian Weapons Transfer Said Complete

  • December 1, 2023

    On Sunday, Nov. 20, 1983, I left my college dorm to visit my parents’ home in the suburbs of Oxford, Ohio. That evening, along with some 100 million other Americans, we witnessed two hours of stunning television that would mobilize the nation, as well as some of its leaders, to take meaningful steps to reduce the nuclear danger.

  • December 1, 2023

    The Defense Department unexpectedly announced plans to develop a new variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb.

  • December 1, 2023

    Israel used its Arrow-3 missile defense system to shoot down a ballistic missile.

  • November 1, 2023

    The experience of the Cold War teaches us that an unconstrained arms race has no winners, only losers. Leaders in Beijing, Moscow, and Washington need to engage in nuclear risk reduction talks, negotiate sensible and verifiable reductions of their arsenals, and refrain from building new destabilizing types of weapons rather than proceed down the dangerous path of unconstrained nuclear competition.

  • November 1, 2023

    For the bipartisan commission charged with recommending how the United States should deal simultaneously with two nuclear-capable adversaries, the “answer to an arms race is an arms race.”

  • November 1, 2023

    Forty-eight states, concerned about Iran’s export of missiles and drones to Russia and other countries, affirmed plans to work to limit the transfers.

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