{{Short description|American nonpartisan organization}} {{primary sources|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox organization | name = Arms Control Association | formation = Tax-exempt since {{Start date and age|1973|1}} | headquarters = Washington, D.C. | leader_title = Executive Director | leader_name = Daryl G. Kimball | website = {{URL|armscontrol.org}} | logo = Arms Control Association logo.png | abbreviation = ACA | type = 501(c)(3) | purpose = "promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies"<ref name="AboutACA" /> | publication = Arms Control Today | revenue = 1,588,444 USD | revenue_year = 2024 | expenses = 1,816,177 USD | expenses_year = 2024 | footnotes = <ref>{{ProPublicaNonprofitExplorer|237124588}}</ref> }}The '''Arms Control Association''' (ACA) is a United States–based nonpartisan membership organization founded in 1971, with the self-stated mission of "promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies."<ref name="armscontrol.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.armscontrol.org/about |title=About the Arms Control Association | Arms Control Association |publisher=Armscontrol.org |access-date=2013-10-27}}</ref>
The group publishes the monthly magazine '''''Arms Control Today'''''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.armscontrol.org/act/current |title=Arms Control Today, October 2013 | Arms Control Association |publisher=Armscontrol.org |access-date=2013-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014121355/http://www.armscontrol.org/act/current |archive-date=2013-10-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It contains topical news updates as well as extended, footnoted articles. The ACA is located in Washington, D.C.<ref name="c760">{{cite web | title=Arms Control Association (ACA) | website=The Library of Congress | date=2025-05-24 | url=https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0000066/ | access-date=2025-06-24}}</ref>
==Projects== Through its online content, print materials, and events, the Arms Control Association provides policymakers, media, and the interested public with information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues.<ref name="armscontrol.org"/>
==Staff and funding== The Arms Control Association is supported by grants from the Ploughshares Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Colombe Foundation, the New Land Foundation, the Prospect Hill Foundation, the Stewart R. Mott Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.<ref name=AboutACA>{{cite web|url=http://www.armscontrol.org/about |title=About the Arms Control Association |publisher=Arms Control Association |access-date=2013-10-27}}</ref> As of 2018, its staff includes:<ref name=AboutACA /> *Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gladstone |first1=Rick |last2=Krauss |first2=Clifford |title=Saudis Issued Dire Warnings Against U.S. Sanctions. But How Much Leverage Do They Have? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/world/middleeast/saudi-khashoggi-us.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 October 2018 |access-date=16 October 2018}}</ref> *Kelsey Davenport, Director for Nonproliferation Policy *Kingston Reif, Director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy *Tony Fleming, Director for Communications and Operations *Terry Atlas, Editor, ''Arms Control Today'' *Allen Harris, Production Editor/Graphic Designer, ''Arms Control Today'' *Shervin Taheran, Program Associate *Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Research Assistant *Merle Newkirk, Finance Officer
In addition, there are two Fellows: *Jeff Abramson, Nonresident Senior Fellow *Terri Lodge, Senior Congressional Fellow
The Association hosts 3–4 interns during the spring, summer, and fall academic semesters, as well as a Scoville Fellow when selected as the host organization.<ref name=Internships>{{cite web|url=http://www.armscontrol.org/internships |title=Internships with the Arms Control Association |publisher=Arms Control Association |access-date=2018-01-05}}</ref>
==See also== * Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation * Control Arms Campaign * Council for a Livable World * Small arms proliferation
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commonscatinline}} *{{Official website|http://www.armscontrol.org/}} *''[http://www.armscontrol.org/aca Arms Control Today]''
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