arms control
any plan, treaty, or agreement to limit the number, size, or type of weapons or armed forces of the participating nations.
the measures taken to limit the weapons systems or armed forces.
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A few years after beginning an art career in Los Angeles in the 1970s, he returned to school to study international relations, developing a specialty in arms control.
In the galleries: An intimate panorama of video art’s variety and breadth | Mark Jenkins | June 25, 2021 | Washington PostIceland’s capital, Reykjavik, was the venue of historic arms control talks between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
When talks resumed, Reagan took everything further than arms control had ever gone before.
George P. Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100 | Michael Abramowitz, David Hoffman | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostStop Killer Robots, a campaign led by computer scientists, arms control experts and human rights activists, said the Air Force research was a dangerous step toward creating lethal autonomous weapons.
DeepMind unveils new details of game-mastering A.I. it says may help in complex real-world environments | Jeremy Kahn | December 23, 2020 | FortuneThat if we didn’t solve this problem and get into the business of arms control, we weren’t going to be around to solve anything else.
But in the world of Western arms control policymakers, Li remains notorious.
The Russians use the aircraft today to monitor U.S. nuclear weapons as part of arms control agreements between both countries.
Pentagon Moves to Block Russian Spy Plane in American Skies | Eli Lake | April 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNot without irony, the answer "has nothing to do with the future of Syria," points out Jeffrey Lewis at arms control Wonk.
“You are not going to have disarmament, but you could have arms control,” he said.
The NRA Has a Head Start Against Newly Energized Gun-Control Advocates | David Freedlander | December 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir collateral damage has drawn opprobrium from human rights groups and arms control advocates.
A swift conclusion to our arms control talks--conventional, chemical and strategic--must now be our goal.
A refinement of the comprehensive test ban treaty of 1963 extended the prohibition on arms control to underground testing.
Area Handbook for Bulgaria | Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
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