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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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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.

Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, was the venue of historic arms control talks between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.

From Ozy

When talks resumed, Reagan took everything further than arms control had ever gone before.

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.

From 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.

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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