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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 weapons altogether.  We are doing this by continuing our role as grant maker and convener…

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 living—what some might call a vocation. As long as I can remember, my contributions to…

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 grabbed their attention immediately. Of the global nuclear arsenal Miles says, “If we had really…