For over 40 years Ploughshares Fund has supported the most effective people and organizations in the world to reduce and ultimately eliminate the dangers posed by nuclear weapons.
Gary Samore, the National Security Council's coordinator for preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, said at a Brookings Institution event that North Korea is unlikely to eliminate its nuclear arsenal as long as leader Kim Jong Il remains in power.
A statement by Ploughshares grantee Partnership for a Secure America offers a concrete list of actions the Obama Administration should take to deliver on the President's promise last month in
The Taliban is using a wide-range of propaganda weapons, spanning high and low technology to sway Afghan support, according to a report from the Ploughshares-funded International Cr
As the insurgency of the Taliban and Al Qaeda spreads in Pakistan, senior American officials are increasingly concerned about new vulnerabilities for Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, including the potential for militants to intercept weapons in transit, or to insert sympathizers into facilities.
A novel by a former Western intelligence officer using the pseudonym James Church features a protagonist struggling to keep his humanity in an authoritarian and increasingly corrupt society.
A bipartisan panel of nuclear weapons experts, convened by the Ploughshares-funded Council on Foreign Relations, is endorsing much of President Obama's ambitious arms-control effort. The CFR task force, co-chaired by
The new Two Futures Project, a coalition of prominent Christians asserting that multilateral disarmament is a biblical imperative, aims to help eliminate nuclear weapons through education and political pressure. Rev.
As President Obama completed his first 100 days in office, analysts are reviewing his performance. Efforts to achieve a nuclear-free world, particularly after his Palm Sund
Today, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) released a Ploughshares-funded Task Force report, "U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy", endorsing some of the most important steps necessary to realize the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. Its recommendations include support for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; limiting the purpose of U.S. nuclear weapons to deterrence; working quickly with Russia to conclude a follow-on agreement to the START Treaty that expires this year; and working to halt the production of weapons-usable fissile materials worldwide. These are all key goals that Ploughshares supports.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talked with House Intelligence Committee members about changes in the congressional briefing process that would broaden the number of members who get information and give them more latitude to challenge policies they opp
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