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Ploughshares Fund Engages on North Korea
As tensions have risen in the face of North Korea’s heated rhetoric, the U.S. media has been running non-stop, and often inflammatory, coverage of every new development. Unfortunately, much of the coverage has been neither useful nor informative and cuts against the opinion of many North Korea experts by touting the DPRK as a direct threat to the United States. Most experts aren’t concerned with the prospect of a preemptive military strike from North Korea. We’ve seen this pattern of provocation before. Instead, experts worry that the situation could spiral out of control, spurring a real crisis on the Korean peninsula. Read more »
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Posted by Rebecca Remy on April 17, 2013
North Korea, Brookings Institution, Center for American Progress, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, International relations, Joe Cirincione, Joel Wit, Nuclear proliferation, Philip Yun, Union of Concerned Scientists, Video
How would you spend $640 Billion?
It's not easy to know how much our nation pays for our nuclear weapons programs. There is no official nuclear weapons budget. Instead, government spending accounts are often opaque, poorly defined and always spread out over several government agencies. But, as we debate appropriate levels of defense spending, Ploughshares Fund believes that it's important to get a sense of what the overall nuclear budget looks like. Read more »
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Posted by admin on October 7, 2012
International relations, Iran and weapons of mass destruction, Nuclear Budget, Nuclear warfare, Nuclear Weapons, Ploughshares Fund
Need a Gift for Mother’s Day? Send a World Without Nuclear Weapons - Video
Is Mother’s Day any one’s favorite holiday? We all love our mothers, but sometimes the pressure to find the right gift to express that love can be intense. To most of us, she’s one of the most important people in our lives, which is why it’s perhaps more difficult to find a gift that seems as important as she is. But what if Mother’s Day meant something more than commericialism? What if Mother’s Day was about peace? Read more »
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Posted by Margaret Swink on April 10, 2012
Women's Security Network, Nuclear disarmament, Civil War, International relations, International security, Julia Ward Howe, Mother's Day, Partners, peace, Ploughshares Fund
Time to End Nuclear Testing
  How many tests are enough before you know that nuclear weapons are unacceptably destructive? The answer, it seems, is 2,053. That is the number of nuclear tests conducted worldwide since the Manhattan Project’s initial Trinity explosion in Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1945. Shockingly, over half of these tests have taken place here in the United States. Read more »
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Posted by Megan Murphy on January 25, 2012
CTBT, CTBT & Nuclear testing, International relations, Isao Hashimoto, Manhattan Project, National Day, Nevada, Nuclear warfare, radiation, United States
Day #2: Bipartisan in a Partisan World
In Washington, it seems everything is a partisan issue these days. From government spending to immigration laws, tax policy to war strategy, policymakers are trapped in a partisan gridlock. Ploughshares Fund works to break through that gridlock, mobilizing support for issues on which everyone can agree. Read more »
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Posted by admin on December 9, 2011
12 Days of Ploughshares, Cato Institute, Center for American Progress, International relations, New Security Consensus, Nuclear proliferation, Partners, Red Cross, United States
From Friend to Dedicated Supporter
In honor of our 30th anniversary year, Ploughshares Fund is conducting interviews with some of our first donors - recording their stories of why they initially took a risk on Sally Lilienthal’s big idea. Board member and former Ploughshares executive director Dr. Gloria Duffy interviews Carol Field below. The interview has been edited and condensed for space. Read more »
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Posted on October 14, 2011
Board member, Carol Field, Gloria Duffy, International relations, Partners, Sally Lilienthal, Ploughshares Fund