Key Topics Bureau Home About Us Leadership Key Topics Remarks and Releases Reports Contact Us HomeBureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability...Key Topics – Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability hide Key Topics – Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability Artificial Intelligence (AI): Artificial intelligence is at the center of the global technological revolution. The Department of State promotes an international policy environment and works to build partnerships that further U.S. leadership in AI technologies, protect our national and economic security, and promote our values. Focus Areas Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy New START Treaty Chemical & Biological Weapons International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification (IPNDV) James Timbie Forum on Arms Control Key Verification Assets Fund (V Fund) Missile Defense, Space Policy, & Cybersecurity Treaty Communications All Treaties 1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol) Agreement Between the United States of America and Romania on the Deployment of the United States Ballistic Missile Defense System in Romania Agreement Between the United States of America and Romania on the Deployment of the United States Ballistic Missile Defense System in Romania (Map) Antarctic Treaty Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) Ballistic Missile Launch Notification Agreement Biological Weapons Convention [46 KB] Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) Conventional Arms Control Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) Interim Agreement on Certain Measures With Respect to the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) Memorandum of Agreement on the Establishment of a Joint Center for the Exchange of Data Memorandum of Understanding on Notifications of Missile Launches (PLNS MOU) Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) Nuclear Material Convention Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Open Skies Treaty Outer Space Treaty Prevention of Dangerous Military Activities Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) (narrative) Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II) Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) — Article by Article Legal Analysis Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II) Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II) — Article by Article Legal Analysis The Moscow Treaty Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) Treaty on Underground Nuclear Explosions For Peaceful Purposes (PNE) Vienna Document 1994 Vienna Document 1999 Vienna Document 2011 Tags Arms Control Arms Control and Nonproliferation Biological Weapons Chemical Weapons New START Treaty Treaties