Chain Reaction

Ploughshares’ annual gala, Chain Reaction, is an invigorating evening of discussion with top policy and political leaders, experts, and activists in the nuclear field.

Enjoy these videos and articles from Chain Reaction 2023.

  • Action Now Panel

    Watch the Action Now panel from Chain Reaction: Action Now! Share it with your friends, and stay engaged in the fight to reduce and eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons. The current war in Ukraine underscores anew the dangerous reemergence of nuclear threats that leave the world vulnerable to...

    June 10, 2022 - By hsingj
  • Special Closing Remarks from Chain Reaction: Action Now

    Watch the Special Closing Remarks by Ploughshares Fund Board Chair Terry Gamble Boyer from Chain Reaction: Action Now! Share it with your friends, and stay engaged in the fight to reduce and eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons. The current war in Ukraine underscores anew the dangerous...

    June 10, 2022 - By hsingj
  • VIDEO: Chain Reaction: Action Now

    Watch the full video of Chain Reaction: Action Now! Share it with your friends, and stay engaged in the fight to reduce and eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons.

    June 10, 2022 - By hsingj
  • Chain Reaction: Action Now

    What does it take to build a movement? People and resources.
     
    The current war in Ukraine underscores anew the dangerous reemergence of nuclear threats that leave the world vulnerable to nuclear escalation, and even nuclear war. Now is the time for action. We need to build a movement...

    April 19, 2022 - By hsingj
  • VIDEO: Momentum: Chain Reaction 2021

    Watch the full video of Momentum: Chain Reaction! Share it with your friends, and stay engaged in the fight to reduce and eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons. This year, we commemorated 40 years of bold action by Ploughshares Fund to promote peace and security around the world and to...

    June 9, 2021 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Momentum: Chain Reaction 2021

    Join us to commemorate 40 years of bold action by Ploughshares Fund to promote peace and security around the world and to celebrate the momentum we carry forward to position people—not nuclear weapons—at the forefront of our national security and budget priorities.

    April 14, 2021 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Beyond the Bomb: A Grassroots Campaign to Stop Nuclear War

    Watch an introduction to the BombSquad, fellows from Beyond the Bomb, led by Tristan Guyette and Molly Hurley, live-streamed via Zoom on June 8, 2020. The BombSquad is Beyond the Bomb's group of young activists working to stop nuclear war and build grassroots support for nuclear policy reform....

    June 11, 2020 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Welcome by Speaker Nancy Pelosi

    Watch Speaker Nancy Pelosi welcome people via video to Chain Reaction: Securing Our Future, live-streamed via Zoom on June 8, 2020, by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The global COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the need to reprioritize the policies that keep...

    June 11, 2020 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Messages from Michael Douglas, Joe Cirincione and Emma Belcher

    Watch the final part of Chain Reaction: Securing Our Future, live-streamed via Zoom on June 8, 2020, featuring a special tribute to outgoing Ploughshares Fund president Joe Cirincione from Michael Douglas, actor, producer, and UN Messenger of Peace. Joe Cirincione gives his last public address...

    June 11, 2020 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Keynote Panel with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

    Members of the Science & Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists joined Chain Reaction: Securing Our Future, live-streamed via Zoom on June 8, 2020, for a discussion on the nuclear, environmental, and public health threats facing the world today. The panel guests are as...

    June 11, 2020 - By Ploughshares Fund