The Control Arms coalition, which represents about 100 organizations worldwide campaigning for a strong treaty, and diplomats from countries that support them, said this wouldn't cover hand grenades and mines.
General Powell has been involved with just about every arms control treaty since there were arms control treaties.
The problem of cyber arms control is akin to the greatest arms control failure of the Cold War, which still persists: the mass distribution of the most produced firearm in human history, the Kalashnikov AK-47.
Amazingly, some of those same people -- including Spurgeon Keeney , president of the Arms Control Association and Mary Elizabeth Hoinkes , a former U.S. Arms Control Agency lawyer, who are quoted in today's Washington Post -- are sharply critical of even these modest efforts to understand and begin to address the threat that they purport to regard as a serious one (at least when opposing missile defenses).
But nobody, the government now says, thought to mention Sandline's activities, or the investigation, to a foreign secretary known throughout his department for having put control of arms sales at the centre of his newly ethical foreign policy.
It would be ironic indeed if an American administration substantially staffed by individuals associated with various arms control interest groups were to endorse a proposal at odds with the newly declared objective of curbing conventional arms proliferation.
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He takes to task particularly those advocates of arms control who dismiss the freeze on the grounds that is neither possible nor verifiable, arguing that these "arms controllers" will "provide the most effective arguments" against the freeze.
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In 1973, Wolfowitz, who had been teaching at Yale, joined the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he was among a group of hawks who reacted skeptically to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreement, which Henry Kissinger had negotiated with the Soviet Union.
The government says it wants to review the files for compliance with arms export control laws known as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or ITAR.
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Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and undersecretary of state (political affairs).
The CFE was one of the most significant arms control agreements of the Cold War years.
The Clinton White House believes an interlocking structure of arms control agreements can guarantee national security.
For ardent believers, arms control is a superstition, impervious to evidence of its futility.
But now, at long last, the spell cast by arms control has been broken.
The United States should reduce the number of arms control pacts being simultaneously negotiated.
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No arms control agreement or verification regime can ensure that that capacity will remain untapped.
True enough, Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control, has deep foreign policy experience.
It recommends, instead, that a different approach to strategic force modernization and arms control be adopted.
Anna Macdonald, head of arms control at Oxfam, said the treaty was too narrow.
Copies of At What Price Arms Control Agreements? may be obtained by contacting the Center.
Rather, it would entail the shredding of two arms control treaties, the ABM accord and START.
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They will have to be renewed if arms control is to be under proper monitoring.
It's also a sad day in the world of arms control and the rule of law.
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Do you believe that the United States can afford to adhere unilaterally to arms control agreements?
America's public aim, until now, has been to contain Mr Hussein--with sanctions, inspections and arms control.
Europeans, he charged, have entered a new century with a misplaced confidence in arms control.
And this is not because we have peace agreements or arms control agreements with them.
Arms control may rank behind even campaign finance reform in the incoming administration's preferences.
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Edward Rowny, USA (Ret.), former Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for Arms Control.
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