Pierce S. Corden

A division chief in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and office director in the State Department, Corden was director of administration in the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization from 2002 until 2007. In 1992 and 1993, he served as deputy executive chairman of the U.N. Special Commission (for Iraq). He is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The views expressed here are his own.

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Articles by Pierce S. Corden

Opinion
12 January 2009
Nuclear Weapons

Organizing for arms control in the Obama administration

Pierce S. Corden

Ten years ago this March, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was merged with the State Department. ACDA had been created in 1961 as an independent agency, in recognition by President John F. Kennedy and prominent senators such as Hubert Humphrey that the nuclear arms race warranted a separate bureaucratic structure to pursue negotiated solutions to threats to national security.