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In 1981, a group would come together to fight for a world without nuclear weapons. That’s how Ploughshares began, with a simple mission to turn swords into ploughshares. Or in this case, nuclear weapons into a thing of the past.…
Ploughshares is invested in ensuring that people recognize the nuclear threat is real. It’s not science-fiction or the plot of a movie set in the Cold War. It exists. It’s here. In many ways, it’s harder today to make progress…
Dr. Emma Belcher was recently a guest on PBS’s ‘The Open Mind’ discussing how to reverse the likelihood of nuclear war.