Ploughshares

Ploughshares has entered a new chapter of leadership with the election of Gretchen Hund as its new Board Chair. Hund, a former Director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) Center for Global Security, specialized in addressing emerging national security threats,…

In preparation for the inauguration, we asked four individuals from our community with a variety of backgrounds to answer a few questions about the nuclear aspects of the Inauguration Day transfer of presidential power: Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security…

Last September, Horizon 2045 and Ploughshares co-hosted “Security & the Future,” a three-day symposium designed to promote long-term thinking about intersections between nuclear challenges and other global threats to human and planetary security. More than 100 colleagues from civil society,…

As of early 2024, nine countries controlled roughly 12,121 warheads. The United States and Russia control approximately 88 percent of all nuclear weapons in the world. As of early 2024, nine countries controlled roughly 12,121 warheads. The United States and…

Ploughshares’ new approach to our organizational strategy.  The goal: To transform the nuclear field, making it a modern, skilled workforce  capable of collective action to respond to urgent nuclear threats and emboldened to achieve our mission to eventually eliminate nuclear…

Question 1: How did you fall into this work? I didn’t envisage this being my career path. For starters, I don’t view my position as proverbial “work,”with a regular “clocking in and clocking out,” but more as a way of…

Miles Anderson stumbled upon Ploughshares ten years ago while reading the newspaper. He and his late wife, Erica, both career musicians, were drawn to organizations that represent the values they hold dear. Ploughshares’s positive and hopeful approach to nuclear policy…