Daryl G. Kimball

Oxford, Washington, D.C.

Director, Arms Control Association and Publisher at Arms Control Today

Director of Arms Control Association and publisher of Arms Control Today since 2001. Expert on n-weapons nonprolif., disarmament and more. Cancer survivor. Dad.

Articles

Ceasefire Halts India, Pakistan Missile Exchange

4 weeks ago | armscontrol.org | Daryl G. Kimball

June 2025By Daryl Kimball and Xiaodon LiangIn a renewed flareup between nuclear-armed rivals, India and Pakistan fired conventionally armed missiles, drones, and artillery shells at each other in early May, in the worst outbreak of direct military violence between the South Asian neighbors since the 1999 Kargil War.
State Reorganization to Merge Arms Control, Nonproliferation Offices

4 weeks ago | armscontrol.org | Daryl G. Kimball

June 2025By Daryl G. KimballU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans for a sweeping overhaul and downsizing of the State Department, including reducing U.S.-based staff by 15 percent and closing or consolidating more than 100 bureaus overseas. “We cannot win the battle for the 21st century with bloated bureaucracy that stifles innovation and misallocates scarce resources,” Rubio said April 22 in a department-wide email obtained by the Associated Press.
Golden Dome: Doubling Down on a Strategic Blunder

1 month ago | armscontrol.org | Daryl G. Kimball

June 2025By Daryl G. KimballNuclear and defense strategists have long understood that the developing and deploying strategic missile interceptors is ineffective against determined nuclear-armed adversaries because it could lead them to build more numerous and sophisticated offensive missile systems—at a relatively lower cost and more quickly—to overwhelm and evade missile defenses.
Hope Is Not a Strategy: The Urgent Need for India and Pakistan to De-escalate | Common Dreams

1 month ago | commondreams.org | Daryl G. Kimball

The heinous terrorist attack near Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22 and the retaliatory May 6 missile and drone attacks by India, including on targets in Pakistani territory, have created the conditions for a dangerous escalation of hostilities between these two nuclear-armed states.
Curb the Skyrocketing Cost of U.S. Nuclear Modernization

1 month ago | armscontrol.org | Daryl G. Kimball

May 2025By Daryl G. KimballSince Russia and the United States agreed 15 years ago to modest nuclear reductions under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), they also have embarked on extraordinarily expensive campaigns to replace and modernize every component of their respective nuclear arsenals to maintain force levels and provide the option to build up.
Who Is Really “Gambling With World War III”?

Mar 28, 2025 | armscontrol.org | Daryl G. Kimball

April 2025By Daryl G. KimballDuring the high-stakes, February 28 Oval Office meeting when U.S. President Donald Trump tried to bully Volodymyr Zelenskyy into accepting a pro-Kremlin formula for ending the war in Ukraine, he accused the Ukrainian president of not wanting peace, and claimed he was “gambling with the lives of millions of people.
Making Sense of Trump’s Talk of ‘Denuclearization’

Feb 28, 2025 | armscontrol.org | Daryl G. Kimball

March 2025By Daryl G. KimballIt has been barely a month since Inauguration Day, but U.S. President Donald Trump is already moving to reshape longstanding foreign policy, radically alter relationships with the nation’s closest allies, and upend its role as a bulwark against an expansionist, authoritarian Russia.
U.S. Says Pakistan Developing Long-Range Missiles

Jan 10, 2025 | armscontrol.org | Kelsey Davenport |Daryl G. Kimball

January/February 2025By Kelsey Davenport and Daryl G. KimballThe United States accused Pakistan of developing long-range ballistic missiles and announced new sanctions on four Pakistani entities involved with the development of those systems.
Pakistan and the Nuclear Danger in Asia

Jan 8, 2025 | armscontrol.org | Daryl G. Kimball

January/February 2025By Daryl G. KimballIn recent years, significant attention has been focused rightly on the dangers posed by a three-way nuclear competition among China, Russia, and the United States and their failure to engage in meaningful diplomacy to halt and reverse the nuclear arms race as required by the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).
Russia Revises Nuclear Use Doctrine

Dec 4, 2024 | armscontrol.org | Daryl G. Kimball

December 2024By Daryl G. KimballThe Kremlin announced on Nov. 19 that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree updating the government’s formal policy on the possible use of nuclear weapons. The document outlines a wider range of contingencies that might trigger nuclear weapons use, especially in regard to non-nuclear weapons threats to Russia and its allies, and appears to lower the threshold for nuclear use.