Among the people and initiatives that have been fortified with early funding from Ploughshares Fund are:
- Legislative advocacy that blocked a wasteful proposal to use economic stimulus funding for nuclear weapons infrastructure.
- International efforts that have recruited a broad and high-level set of global leaders that have endorsed the goal of a nuclear weapons-free world.
- Targeted recruitment of a diverse, high-level, bipartisan set of national security elites that have endorsed deep reductions in U.S. arsenals and closer cooperation with Russia to achieve these reductions.
- Effective engagement with official delegations to the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference that helped lay the groundwork for a successful outcome at the 2010 RevCon.Entrepreneurial programs to prevent nuclear terrorism by locking down and removing vulnerable nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere.
- Public campaigns to compel governments to oppose the development of a new generation of “usable” nuclear weapons and to take their nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert.
- Programs to reorient Russian nuclear weapons facilities and scientists to productive, economically viable endeavors, including the establishment of non-proliferation centers at former nuclear weapons labs.
- A network of civil society organizations that are monitoring governments’ adherence to the biological weapons treaty, in the absence of any official verification regime.
- The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, whose efforts led to a global treaty to abolish anti-personnel landmines in record time, and the Nobel Peace Prize.
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