General News Post

 Ploughshares Fund board member Reza Aslan and Bernard Avishai discuss the devastating consequences of a pre-emptive attack on Iran in a op-ed in the International Herald Tribune. They argue that, instead of hyping discussions of attacking Iran, the best way to thwart Iran's ambitions is to make progress toward peace in the Middle East. Read more >>

In an op-ed in New Hampshire's Nashua Telegraph, Lt. Gen. John Castellaw, Lt. Gen. Dirk Jameson and Brig. Gen. John Adams urged Senators to put national security above political partisanship and ratify the New START treaty. Read more >>

"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 >>

In the next round of nuclear negotiations, the United States and Russia "need to pursue much deeper cuts in their nuclear stockpiles and agree to a lower level of launch readiness."  That's the argument that Bruce Blair, Victor Esin, Matthew McKinzie, Vakery Yarynich and Pavel Zolotarev make in "Smaller and Safer: A New Plan for Nuclear Postures," an article in the September/ October 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs. Read more >>