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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 Post
Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, was the venue of historic arms control talks between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
Butterfly Effect: Can Cold Alaska Yield a Thaw With Beijing?|Charu Kasturi|March 18, 2021|Ozy
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 Post
Stop 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|Fortune

That 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.
Speak Softly and Carry Big Data (Ep. 395)|Stephen J. Dubner|October 31, 2019|Freakonomics
But in the world of Western arms control policymakers, Li remains notorious.
Tehran’s Chinese Missile Man|Jefferson Morley|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
Not without irony, the answer "has nothing to do with the future of Syria," points out Jeffrey Lewis at Arms Control Wonk.
Will We Go To War In Syria?|Ali Gharib|April 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“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|DAILY BEAST
Their collateral damage has drawn opprobrium from human rights groups and arms control advocates.
Clinton's Cluster Bomb Hypocrisy|Lionel Beehner|April 16, 2011|DAILY BEAST
A swift conclusion to our arms control talks--conventional, chemical and strategic--must now be our goal.
Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006|Various
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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