Inside the Arms Control Association

For the first time in more than 35 years, there is serious talk about increasing the size and diversity of the already massive and costly U.S. nuclear arsenal. Such an expansion would increase global nuclear dangers and reverse decades of progress in slashing U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles.

Mainstream campaign news coverage has paid scant attention to how the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees plan to address one of the most serious threats to U.S. and international security. Given what is at stake, the candidates’ approaches to the nuclear weapons threat deserve more scrutiny.

This year’s edition of ACA’s Annual Meeting raised national and international awareness about the problems posed by nuclear weapons, what’s at stake, the policy choices ahead, and the important role for concerned people in the United States and beyond.

This year at ACA’s annual meeting, we will delve into some of the most pressing arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament challenges facing the nation and the world today.

ACA is working hard to explain that increasing the number of U.S. nuclear weapons or adding new types of nuclear weapons would not effectively address threats from Russia, China or elsewhere, but rather would further fuel the dangerous action-reaction cycle that is already underway.