the detection, identification, inspection, monitoring, limitation, reduction, control, and elimination of armed forces and armaments, including thermonuclear, nuclear, missile, conventional, bacteriological, chemical, and radiological weapons:

the techniques and systems of detecting, identifying, inspecting, and monitoring of tests of nuclear, thermonuclear, and other weapons;

the analysis of national budgets, levels of industrial production, and economic indicators to determine the amounts spent by various countries for armaments [1] and of all aspects of anti-satellite activities;

the control, reduction, and elimination of armed forces and armaments in space, in areas on and beneath the earth’s surface, and in underwater regions;

the structure and operation of international control and other organizations useful for arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament;

the training of scientists, technicians, and other personnel for manning the control systems which may be created by international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements;

the reduction and elimination of the danger of war resulting from accident, miscalculation, or possible surprise attack, including (but not limited to) improvements in the methods of communications between nations;

the economic and political consequences of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, including the problems of readjustment arising in industry and the reallocation of national resources;

the arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament implications of foreign and national security policies of the United States with a view to a better understanding of the significance of such policies for the achievement of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament;

the national security and foreign policy implications of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament proposals with a view to a better understanding of the effect of such proposals upon national security and foreign policy;

methods for the maintenance of peace and security during different stages of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament;

the scientific, economic, political, legal, social, psychological, military, and technological factors related to the prevention of war with a view to a better understanding of how the basic structure of a lasting peace may be established; and

such related problems as the Secretary of State may determine to be in need of research, development, or study in order to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

(Pub. L. 87–297, title III, § 301, formerly § 31, Sept. 26, 1961, 75 Stat. 633; Pub. L. 88–186, § 5, Nov. 26, 1963, 77 Stat. 342; Pub. L. 95–108, § 3, Aug. 17, 1977, 91 Stat. 871; Pub. L. 97–339, § 4, Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1636; Pub. L. 103–236, title VII, § 719(c), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 501; renumbered § 301 and amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XII, § 1223(6), (21), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–769, 2681–772.)