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Arms control
The international restrictions on the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction. Arms control is usually exercised through international treaties and agreements that impose arms limitations among consenting parties.
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Arms control
Restricted area
Military; Arms control
Under the Treaty on Open Skies, an airspace of defined dimensions, above the territory of a State Party, within which the flight of aircraft is restricted in accordance with specified conditions. ...
Riot control agent (RCA)
Military; Arms control
Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, any chemical not listed in a Schedule which can rapidly produce in humans sensory irritation or disabling physical effects that disappear within a short time ...
Resolution
Military; Arms control
Under the Open Skies Treaty, measurement of a sensor's capability to distinguish between detached objects. Indicates the minimum distance required for detached objects to be distinguished as separate ...
Sampling and analysis
Military; Arms control
Under arms control agreements, the process of collecting air, soil, effluent, and other materials and analysis to determine the presence or absence of treatyprohibited or monitored substances.
Routine inspection
Military; Arms control
Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, commonly employed unofficial term used to denote any inspection other than a challenge inspection.
Director-general (DG)
Military; Arms control
Head and chief administrative officer of the technical secretariat of the organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and of the provisional technical secretariat of the ...
Director of central intelligence (DCI)
Military; Arms control
Head of the Central Intelligence Agency and primary advisor to the President and the National Security Council on national foreign intelligence; appointed by the President with the consent of the ...
