Through public events, webinars, and press briefings, the Arms Control Association provides policymakers, the press, and the interested public with breaking updates and analysis on arms control developments, negotiations, and news. View recording of recent activities below and sign up to receive invitations to future events.
On 27 April 2016, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed an audience, ranging from veteran officials to young leaders, on the need for the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
The United States should ratify the treaty banning nuclear tests “the sooner the better”, according to George Shultz, a former Republican presidential adviser known best as the Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan.
Secretary of State John Kerry refocused attention on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and its value to U.S. security with remarks about the treaty at the National Nuclear Security Administration in October 2015.
In September 2015, The Guardian released an interactive news story with videos, interviews, and a time-lapse from 1951 to 1992 of all the nuclear tests which occurred at the Nevada test site.
The third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (Vienna, December 2014) welcomed representatives of both governments and civil society to discuss the dangers that nuclear weapons pose to civilians and the general public in terms of contamination of the environment, radiation poisoning, and various other hazards.