 | This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Arms Control Association" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
The Arms Control Association is a United States–based nonpartisan membership organization founded in 1971, with the self-stated mission of "promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies."
The group publishes the monthly magazine Arms Control Today. It contains topical news updates as well as extended, footnoted articles.
Projects
Through its online content, print materials, and events, the Arms Control Association provides policymakers, media, and the interested public with information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues.
Staff and funding
The Arms Control Association is supported by grants from the Ploughshares Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Colombe Foundation, the New Land Foundation, the Prospect Hill Foundation, the Stewart R. Mott Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. As of 2018, its staff includes:
- Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director
- Kelsey Davenport, Director for Nonproliferation Policy
- Kingston Reif, Director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy
- Tony Fleming, Director for Communications and Operations
- Terry Atlas, Editor, Arms Control Today
- Allen Harris, Production Editor/Graphic Designer, Arms Control Today
- Shervin Taheran, Program Associate
- Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Research Assistant
- Merle Newkirk, Finance Officer
In addition, there are two Fellows:
- Jeff Abramson, Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Terri Lodge, Senior Congressional Fellow
The Association hosts 3–4 interns during the spring, summer, and fall academic semesters, as well as a Scoville Fellow when selected as the host organization.
See also
- Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
- Control Arms Campaign
- Council for a Livable World
- Small arms proliferation
References
- ^ "About the Arms Control Association | Arms Control Association". Armscontrol.org. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
- "Arms Control Today, October 2013 | Arms Control Association". Armscontrol.org. Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
- ^ "About the Arms Control Association". Arms Control Association. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
- Gladstone, Rick; Krauss, Clifford (16 October 2018). "Saudis Issued Dire Warnings Against U.S. Sanctions. But How Much Leverage Do They Have?". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
- "Internships with the Arms Control Association". Arms Control Association. Retrieved 2018-01-05.