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A YouTube video shot by the perpetrators takes us inside the recent trespassing incident at a nuclear weapons site in Belgium. A group of activists stroll into a top secret area where the nukes are kept in bunkers. They deface one of the bunkers and then continue walking the length of the restricted area. Read more >>

The epic blizzard that all but immobilized our nation's capital has not deterred Ploughshares Fund's Washington, DC-based staff from the "swift completion of their appointed rounds," that is, the effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate nuclear weapons.  Here, Research Assistant Ben Loehrke emerges from a snow drift in his backyard in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he will be working until metro service is restored to downtown Washington.   Read more >>

The Heritage Foundation's film about nuclear threats, "33 Minutes", is a modern day Reefer Madness, the 1930s film on the descent into insanity and criminality of a group of marijuana smokers. Read more >>

U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators have reached an "agreement in principle" on the first nuclear arms reduction treaty in nearly two decades, administration and arms control officials said Tuesday. Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Ploughshares-funded Arms Control Association, said the deal will clear the way for the broader Obama nuclear agenda. Read more >>