Definitions

arms control

NOUN

weapons reduction

Synonyms

STRONGEST

gun control nonproliferation

WEAK

arms limitation arms reduction defense cuts

Example Sentences

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Appeared in the December 30, 2025, print edition as 'Maybe Arms Control Does Have a Future'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

"It's been on his mind since the 80s. He wants to solve this issue," Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, told AFP.

From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025

John Miller, 63, and a Chinese man, Cui Guanghai, are wanted by the FBI on charges relating to conspiracy to commit interstate stalking and conspiracy, smuggling and violations of the Arms Control Act.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2025

For example, former Rep. John Tierney of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation offered this blunt indictment of ICBMs:

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2024

Only recently, new light was shed on the subject in a study which the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency had asked the National Academy of Sciences to undertake.

From Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives by U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency