The Arms Control Association is a US-based national nonpartisan membership organization founded in 1971 with the self-stated mission of promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control

Arms control

Arms control is an umbrella term for restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction...

 policies. The group is known for its publication of the magazine Arms Control Today.

Projects

Through its public education and media programs, its blog, Arms Control Now, and its magazine, Arms Control Today (ACT), ACA provides policy-makers, the press and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues. In addition to the regular press briefings, ACA holds on major arms control developments, the Association's staff provides commentary and analysis on a broad spectrum of issues for journalists and scholars both in the United States and abroad.

Staff and funding

The Arms Control Association is supported by grants from the Ploughshares Fund

Ploughshares Fund

The Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives to prevent the spread and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and other weapons of war, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to the use of weapons of mass destruction. Ploughshares is a 501...

, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Carnegie Corporation of New York, which was established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 "to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding," is one of the oldest, largest and most influential of American foundations...

, the Colombe Foundation, the New Land Foundation, the Prospect Hill Foundation, the Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust

Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust

The Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust is a charitable trust founded by Stewart Rawlings Mott in the United States that gives small grants to organizations working in the following areas:* peace, arms control and foreign policy;...

, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Reddington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1967. The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to support educational and cultural institutions and to advance certain social and...

. Its staff includes:

• Daryl Kimball - Executive Director
• Jeff Abramson - Deputy Director
• Tom Z. Collina - Research Director
• Greg Thielmann
  Greg Thielmann
  Greg Thielmann served as a top intelligence official at the U.S. State Department until resigning shortly before the war with Iraq and charging the George W. Bush administration with cooking its intelligence....
  
   - Senior Fellow
• Peter Crail - Research Analyst
• Daniel Horner - Editor, ACT

See also

• Arms Reduction Coalition
  Arms Reduction Coalition
  The Arms Reduction Coalition is a United Kingdom-based non-profit non-governmental organization which campaigns for a reduction in the resources spent on arms and the military and for those resources to be divereted to programmes that benefit humanity and the earth; such as poverty reduction,...
  
  
• Campaign Against Arms Trade
  Campaign Against Arms Trade
  Campaign Against Arms Trade is a UK-based NGO and campaigning organisation working towards the abolition of the international arms trade. Founded in 1974 by a broad coalition of peace groups, CAAT is united in opposition to the military industrial complex and the growth of the private military...
  
  
• Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
• Council for a Livable World
  Council for a Livable World
  Council for a Livable World is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating the U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons...
  
  
• Control Arms Campaign
  Control Arms Campaign
  Control Arms is a campaign jointly run by Amnesty International, IANSA and Oxfam International.The campaign focuses on the international trade in arms, arguing that the lack of controls on the arms trade is fuelling armed conflict, poverty and human rights abuses worldwide.The campaign seeks to...
  
  
• Small arms proliferation
  Small arms proliferation
  Small arms proliferation is a term used by organizations and individuals advocating the control of small arms and their trade; the term has no precise definition...
  
  

External links

• Arms Control Association Official website
• Arms Control Today page
• Arms Control Now blog