Nuclear Materials

Former CIA Officer Valerie Plame Wilson: "This is an issue of national security"

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August 27, 2010

"We can no longer continue in this doctrine that we have used for many decades," said former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson at the premier of Countdown to Zero in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  "The world has changed profoundly and fundamentally."  Read more >>

Department of Energy Releases Sections of Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plans

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July 15, 2010

Two Ploughshares Fund grantees -- Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) -- recently obtained previously unpublished sections of the Obama Administration's plan to modernize the nuclear stockpile.   Read more >>

How Iran Can Build a Bomb

By Joseph Cirincione and Elise Connor

Today, U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law the next round of unilateral sanctions taking aim at Iran's energy sector. With this bill, Washington is seeking to stem what many view as Tehran's imminent nuclear future. But how imminent is that future, exactly? Read more >>

The Politics of the Brazil-Turkey-Iran Agreement

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May 19, 2010

The uranium swap agreement reached by Brasil, Turkey, and Iran threw the politics into disorder surrounding Iran's nuclear program in advance of sanctions debates at the UN Security Council and in Congress.  

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