The Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security is the State Department’s senior official on arms control, nonproliferation, and international security—serving as a principal adviser to the President and Secretary of State; leading interagency policy on nonproliferation, arms control and regional security; overseeing negotiation, implementation, and verification of arms-control agreements; and managing related bureaus (e.g., Political‑Military Affairs, Arms Control bureaus) and export‑control/security‑assistance policies.
The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is the UN’s permanent multilateral negotiating forum in Geneva for arms‑control and disarmament. Its agenda typically includes nuclear disarmament/cessation of the nuclear arms race, prevention of nuclear war, prevention of an arms race in outer space, assurances to non‑nuclear states, new types of WMD (including radiological weapons), transparency in armaments, and a comprehensive programme of disarmament.
The Joint Political‑Military Group (JPMG) is the primary bilateral U.S.–Israel political‑military forum (created in 1983) for coordinating security policy, assistance, and operational cooperation. U.S. participants are typically senior civilian and military officials from the State Department (notably the Bureau of Political‑Military Affairs and other security bureaus), the Department of Defense and related agencies; Israeli participants are senior officials from the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Israeli defense establishment.
The "Department of War" is not a current U.S. cabinet department. The historic Department of War (ended in 1947–1949) was replaced by today’s Department of Defense; in this 2026 media note the phrase is almost certainly a drafting/typographical error referring to the Department of Defense or the U.S. defense side of the delegation.
U.S. visits to Israeli military sites commonly produce non‑binding outcomes such as operational exchanges, demonstrations of interoperability, assessments of joint capabilities, planning for exercises or logistics, and technical or programmatic agreements; they may also inform later security assistance decisions or lead to memoranda of understanding but typically do not by themselves create formal treaties.
Yes. The State Department routinely posts trip readouts, media notes, statements, and any signed agreements on its website (state.gov) and in Office of the Spokesperson releases; related readouts may also appear on the Under Secretary’s page and on Department of Defense or U.S. Embassy/mission sites. Check the Office of the Spokesperson releases and the Under Secretary’s "Remarks and Releases" pages after the trip.