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arms control

noun

  1. any plan, treaty, or agreement to limit the number, size, or type of weapons or armed forces of the participating nations.
  2. the measures taken to limit the weapons systems or armed forces.


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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.

Not 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.

Their 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.

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