“[My time at ACA] prepared me very well for the position that I took following that with the State Department, where I then implemented and helped to implement many of the policies that we tried to promote.”
Inside the Arms Control Association
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There is no doubt that 2025 has been a brutally difficult year for international peace and security. Nuclear dangers are on the rise. Nuclear weapons spending is way up. Key nuclear norms, and agreements designed to reduce nuclear dangers are in jeopardy. Leading states have failed to engage in commonsense arms control diplomacy. For the sake of future generations (and ours) we cannot allow the situation to deteriorate further in 2026.
At this pivotal and difficult juncture in the history of the nuclear age, ACA has been focused on preventing the guardrails against nuclear catastrophe from breaking down, and preparing to seize the breakthrough moment when we can advance again in the direction of a world free of nuclear weapons.
As we observe the somber 80th anniversaries of the nuclear weapons age, the catastrophic risks posed by these weapons are growing once again. We owe it to past and future generations to demand that today’s leaders take meaningful action to halt and reverse the new nuclear arms race and engage in effective diplomacy to reduce and eliminate the nuclear weapons threat.
For years, U.S. leadership has played a key role in shaping global efforts to reduce nuclear risks, but that leadership is now under strain. With federal expertise shrinking and philanthropic support fading, new initiatives like the Carnegie Corporation’s funding consortium are vital to revitalizing the nuclear policy field.