ABSTRACT

An exceedingly challenging agenda of urgent, important, and diverse arms control issues awaits the incoming Biden administration. To address it, the administration should consider the creation of a new agency to focus on cooperative threat reduction; alternatively, deft reorganization of key elements of the executive branch could be pursued swiftly, without requiring legislation. An examination of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency’s impressive record of accomplishments (and some failures) between 1961 and 1999, when it was disestablished, can help identify some ideas and options for its potential successor today.

中文翻译：

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雄心勃勃的军备控制议程需要一个与任务平等的新组织

摘要

即将上任的拜登政府正面临着一个非常具有挑战性的紧迫，重要而多样的军备控制议程。为了解决这个问题，政府应该考虑建立一个新的机构来专注于减少合作威胁；或者，可以迅速进行行政部门关键组成部分的巧妙重组，而无需立法。对军备控制和裁军局在1961年至1999年间被撤销的令人印象深刻的成就（和一些失败）记录进行的考察，可以为当今的潜在继任者确定一些想法和选择。