Daryl Kimball
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Daryl Kimball
The Arms Control Association is a United States-based national nonpartisan-membership organization founded in 1971, with the self-stated mission of promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies...
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They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.
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What you see here is the U.S. carving out of this document any reference to the responsibility to the nuclear weapon states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. And that is going to make it all the more difficult to strengthen an already beleaguered nuclear nonproliferation system because other states are less likely to foreclose their nuclear options if the United States and others continue to pursue theirs.