Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

An agency of the U.S. government charged with conducting research and formulating policies and international agreements designed to prevent proliferation and to encourage disarmament of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. It comes under the aegis of the Department of State.

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Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Washington, D.C.

Nations consent to ban all nuclear tests

Thomas Graham, acting director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, summarized the Clinton administration's assessment of the ABM Treaty in a July 14 letter to Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.).

Going anti-ballistic; the Clinton administration shoots down national missile defense

Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1977 and 1978 and was chief U.S.

Nine views; what happens after Reykjavik?

Mobbs, a defense department attorney and former official with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, will help reconstruct Iraq's legal system.