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![A Dongfeng-41 intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles group formation marches to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, 1 October 2019.](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2019-10-01T110239Z_1239499833_MT1IMGCN0008M2QMZ_RTRMADP_3_CHINA-NATIONAL-DAY-MILITARY-PARADE-NUCLEAR-MISSILES-FORMATION-e1720040594181.jpg?quality=75&w=1000)
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Few problems pose greater challenges to U.S. national security than controlling, reducing and countering the proliferation of nuclear arms. The Brookings Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative brings the Institution’s multidisciplinary strengths to bear on the critical challenges of arms control and non-proliferation. Housed in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology in the Brookings Foreign Policy program, the Initiative addresses global arms control and proliferation challenges, as well as the central negotiations between the United States and Russia.