Arms Control Association
The Arms Control Association was founded in 1971 and is based in Washington, D.C.[1]
About
The 1982 budget of the Association was some $200,000, meaning that the group could wield considerable influence through its "educational" programs that included 25 or more briefings annually. According to a report dated February 22, 1982 by Ann Zill of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, these briefings were attended yearly by between 700 and 1,000 "academic and diplomatic people, government personnel and aficionado".
For 1982, ACA is sending "editorial advisories" to 1,000 medium to large newspapers in the United States on three issues: "How can a nuclear war start? What would the effects be? And how can one be prevented?" Prevention according to ACA means arms control agreements such as the rejected SALT II treaty in which the United States sends "signals" of peaceful intent to the USSR through major concessions.[1]
Circa Jun 1994, John Holum, President Clinton's director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), told the Arms Control Association during a speech that "the relationship between the ACDA director and the Arms Control Association very nearly approximates that between a junior executive and the corporate board".[2]
Mission
The Association claims to be a national nonpartisan membership organization,dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies:
- "Through its public education and media programs and its magazine, Arms Control Today, ACA provides policy-makers, the press and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues. In addition to the regular press briefings ACA holds on major arms control developments, the Association's staff provides commentary and analysis on a broad spectrum of issues for journalists and scholars both in the United States and abroad."[3]
In June 1994, the organization stated that its purpose was:
- "Research and dissemination of research on topics pertaining to peace, international security, arms control, non-proliferation, disarmament, and defense policy."[2]
Personnel
1982
As at March, 1982, ACA's leaders included William Kincaid and former CIA official Herbert Scoville.[1]
1994
As at June, 1994, the following served on the Board of Directors, or were trustees of the association:[2]
- McGeorge Bundy
- George Bunn, Center for International Security & Arms Control
- Maj. Gen. William Burns (USA, Ret.)
- Antonia Chayes
- William T. Coleman Jr.
- Susan Eisenhower, Center for Post-Soviet Studies
- Randall Forsberg
- Raymond Garthoff, Brookings Institute
- J. Bryan Hehir, Center for International Affairs
- Thomas Hughes, Cargenic Endowment for International Peace
- Henry Kendall, MIT
- Michael Klare, Hampshire College
- Harold Homgju Koh, Yale Law School
- Betty Lall
- James F. Leonard
- Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, 1961 - 1968
- Saul Mendlovitz, World Order Models Project
- Julia A. Moore
- Janne E. Nolan, Brookings Institute
- Frank Press, Carnegie Institute
- Lt. Gen. Robert Pursley (USAF, Ret.), Logistics Management Institute
- Stanley R. Resor
- John Rhinelander
- John Steinbruner, Brookings Institute
- Jeremiah Sullivan
- Paul Warnke
Officers
- Spurgeon M. Keeny, President
- Jack Mendelson, Director
- John Schulz, Director
2010
As at March 19, 2010, the following served on the Board of Directors:[3]
Officers
- John Steinbruner, Chairman
Directors
Directors Emeritus
- George Bunn
- Maj. Gen. William Burns (USA, Ret.)
- William T. Coleman Jr.
- Ralph Earle
- Richard Garwin
- Thomas Hughes
- James F. Leonard
- Lt. Gen. Robert Pursley (USAF, Ret.)
- Stanley R. Resor
Staff
As at March 19, 2010, the following were staff members of the Association:[3]
- Daryl Kimball, Executive Director
- Jeff Abramson, Deputy Director
- Tom Collina, Research Director
- Greg Thielmann, Senior Fellow
- Peter Crail, Research Analyst
- Meri Lugo, CTBT Project Associate
- Daniel Horner, Editor, ACT
- Elisabeth Erickson, Managing Editor, ACT
- Brian Creamer, Assistant Editor, ACT
- Eric Auner, Administrative Assistant
- Volha Charnysh, New Voices Nonproliferation Fellow
- Merle Lee Newkirk, Finance Officer
- Oliver Meier, International Representative and Correspondent in the Berlin, Germany office
Funders
As at March 19, 2010, the following organizations were funders of the Association:[3]
- Carnegie Corporation of New York ($200,000 over two years)
- The Connect U.S. Fund
- Colombe Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- New-Land Foundation
- Ploughshares Fund ($20,000 in year ending June, 1994)
- Prospect Hill Foundation
- Public Welfare Foundation
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Winston Foundation ($15,000 in year ending June, 1994)
- Rockefeller Foundation ($15,000 in 1995)
