The Bureau of Arms Control is a bureau of the United States Department of State that is responsible for developing policy in the areas of conventional, chemical/biological, and nuclear forces, for supporting arms control negotiations, for implementing existing agreements in these areas, and for advising the Secretary on related national security issues such as nuclear testing and missile defense. As of 2005, it is headed by Assistant Secretary Stephen G. Rademaker. The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

The Bureau of Arms Control leads efforts to negotiate new arms control agreements, such as the May 2002 Moscow Treaty on strategic offensive reductions, as well as ongoing efforts in the Geneva Conference on Disarmament (CD). This Bureau also has the equally important task of implementing a large number of existing agreements, including INF, START, Moscow Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention. The Bureau has the lead for negotiations, implementation, and policy development related to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Confidence and Security-Building Measures (CSBMs) in the OSCE, the Treaty on Open Skies, arms control elements of the Dayton peace accords, and other European conventional arms control issues. Moreover, the Bureau supports the Secretary and Under Secretary on issues and efforts with other countries related to strategic stability. 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for May, 2002. ... The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union signed in Washington, D.C. on December 8, 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. ... START, oficially the STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty was a nuclear weapons limitation treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. ... The Chemical Weapons Convention is an arms control agreement which outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. ... Biological Weapons Convention Opened for signature April 10, 1972 at ??? Entered into force March 26, 1975 Conditions for entry into force ??? Parties ??? The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (usually referred to as just Biological Weapons... Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) from 1989 to 1992 established comprehensive limits on key categories of conventional military equipment and provides for the destruction of weaponry in excess of those limits. ... The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is an international organization for security. ... The Treaty on Open Skies entered into force on January 1, 2002, and currently has 30 States Parties. ... The Dayton Agreement or Dayton Accords is the name given to the agreement at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio to end the war in the former Yugoslavia that had gone on for the previous three years, in particular the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

In early 2004, the Confidence and Security Building Measures office was moved from the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs to the Bureau of Arms Control. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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