The arms control process is intended to serve as a means to enhance a state’s national security. Arms control is but one approach to achieve that goal.
Arms control can even lead states to agree to increases in certain categories of armaments if such increases would contribute to crisis stability and thereby reduce the chance of war. Armaments have been the major cause of international instability and conflict; only through reductions in the weaponry of all nations can the world achieve peace.
Disarmament has a longer legacy than arms control and was a common theme in international relations. 1960s international security specialists began using the term arms control in place of the term disarmament. In other word disarmament as part of a state’s arms control policy and it be part of a means- to-an-end approach. For example, the United States and other countries have negotiated global conventions that endeavor to rid the world of chemical and biological weapons.