Irma Arguello is an international security expert from Argentina. She founded and currently chairs the Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation- NPSGlobal, a private, non-profit initiative oriented to help reduce risks derived from the proliferation and use of armaments, with a special emphasis on weapons of mass destruction

Weapons of mass destruction

A weapon of mass destruction is a weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans and/or cause great damage to man-made structures , natural structures , or the biosphere in general...

. The organization is also devoted to building up adequate and opportune responses to such threats at all levels, in order to increase global security.

From a conceptual point of view, she focuses her public action on promoting the idea of a world free of weapons of mass destruction, and in particular, the abolition of nuclear weapons achieved through cooperation while based on fair global rules and equity among nations.