Approaches to achieving security that focus on limiting the numbers and types of weapons countries possess. Aims at lessening military capabilities and lessening the damage even if war begins. 343
Any unilateral measure or multilateral step taken to reduce or control any aspect of either a weapon system or armed forces. Such reductions or limitations might affect the size, type, configuration, production, or performance characteristics of a weapon system, or the size, organization, equipment, deployment, or employment of armed forces.
coordinated action based on agreements to limit, regulate, or reduce weapon systems by the parties involved.
Arms control, a term popularized in the early 1960s, refers to the voluntary limitation or reduction of weapons and their means of delivery, between and among countries, through negotiation. It is distinct from disarmament, which seeks to eliminate, also by international agreement, the means by which countries wage war. While arms control compiled a mixed record during the post-World War II era, revolutionary changes in international politics during the early 1990s-most especially the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War-have opened up promising new opportunities for radical reductions in the nuclear and conventional weapons arsenals of the major powers.
Negotiations and agreements that limit the production of weapons by nations.
a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country
agreements among states to restrict the research, manufacture, or deployment of weapons systems and certain types of troops (156)
Arms control is an umbrella term for restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction. Arms control is typically exercised through the use of diplomacy which seek sto impose such limitations upon consenting participants through international treaties and agreements, although it may also comprise efforts by a nation or group of nations to enforce limitations upon a non-consenting country.
