News & Analysis

In an essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, John Isaacs and Kingston Reif of the Ploughshares-funded Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation comment on the likelihood that the Senate will support nuclear reductions.  While President Obama’s nuclear goals are generally long-term plans, the follow-on agreement to START can be achieved this year, Read more >>

Tad Daley and Kevin Martin of Ploughshares-funded Peace Action outline in the Huffington Post the logic behind “deterrence theory” as a justification for nuclear weapons.  They write that the U.S.’s insistence that countries like Iran and North Korea have no need for such weapons would hold more weight if it did not insist that, even with its vastly superior conventional str Read more >>

Seeking to reverse the Bush-era deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations, President Obama will meet with Russian President Medvedev next week with arms control at the top of their agenda.  Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Contol Association, said that "the Obama administration has chosen to focus on the areas where the United States and Russia wish to cooperate, and to de-emphasize some of the areas where we have disagree Read more >>

Iran's popular uprising, which began after the June 12 election, may be heading for a premature ending, write Ploughshares Fund grantee Trita Parsi and board member Reza Aslan in Foreign Policy. "In many ways, the Ahmadinejad government has succeeded in transforming what was a mass movement into dispersed pockets of unrest. Read more >>