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What is "arms control"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
arms control
noun
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▪ Bush made an important speech on arms control policy last week in Washington.
▪ First, old Cold War-era arms control issues linger on, needing to be negotiated away.
▪ Now they are more likely to do research on narrow topics like arms control.
▪ The two men meet semiannually on trade, arms control and other security issues.
▪ There is still work to be done on maritime arms control.
▪ There may be no missile that is survivable, affordable and compatible with arms control.
▪ They say that it could erode existing arms control agreements and lead to a new arms race.
▪ We committed ourselves to arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation and to the conclusion of a chemical weapons convention this year.
Wiktionary
arms control

n. Restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction.

WordNet
arms control

n. a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country

Wikipedia
Arms control

Arms control is a term for international restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation and usage of small arms, conventional weapons, and weapons of mass destruction. Arms control is typically exercised through the use of diplomacy which seeks to impose such limitations upon consenting participants through international treaties and agreements, although it may also comprise efforts by a nation or group of nations to enforce limitations upon a non-consenting country.

Usage examples of "arms control".

Phil went on to the Naval Academy, and after his naval career he did important work in the Pentagon on arms control issues.

On the same day, I named an old friend from the McGovern days, John Holum, to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and used the occasion to emphasize my nonproliferation agenda: ratification of the convention controlling chemical weapons, achieving a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, achieving permanent extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which expired in 1995, and fully funding the Nunn-Lugar program to secure and destroy Russian nuclear weapons and material.

Using tactics of exaggeration and even smear, he successfully manipulated the policy-making process for five decades, denouncing all manner of arms control meas­.

Now even the Russian Duma was more progressive on arms control than the U.

Al was an expert on national security, arms control, information technology, energy, and the environment.

As before, Yeltsin began aggressively, demanding that we change our arms control positions and open American markets to Russian products like satellite rocket launchers without requiring export controls that would prohibit Russian sales of military technology to America’.

With the help of our hard-nosed expert, Lynn Davis, I hung tough on export controls and rebuffed the arms control demands by referring them to our staffs for further study.