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.
Challenges lie ahead for efforts to restart dialogue between the world's nuclear powers, stop the production of new nuclear weapons, and re-think the US nuclear posture review. This week on Press the Button, we present an exclusive look at the future of US nuclear policy, taken from a special...
On Thursday, October 24, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Chairman Adam Smith of the House Armed Services Committee delivered the keynote talk at a special briefing we hosted on the future of US nuclear policy. He outlined his vision for US nuclear policy, including his funding...
When Kennette Benedict joined the board of the Ploughshares Fund in 2012, she was Executive Director and Publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, at the apex of a distinguished professional career devoted to spotlighting the existential risks of nuclear weapons and reducing...
To reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, stop their spread, and build peace in regions of conflict where nuclear weapons exists, Ploughshares Fund is working to stop an emerging nuclear arms race, support and extend arms control treaties, and prevent nuclear war. This is why we are...
An exciting leadership transition happened at Ploughshares Fund recently — the departure of longtime Chief Operating Officer Philip Yun and the appointment of Elizabeth Warner as managing director. Philip led the organization through a significant period of growth, playing an influential role in...
Since taking office in 2016, President Trump has dismantled many of the security guardrails that restrained nuclear dangers for decades. He walked away from a successful Iran deal, killed Reagan’s treaty on intermediate-range nuclear weapons and may yet destroy New START – the only remaining...
I'm incredibly inspired by the increasing calls for peace around the world by lawmakers, activists, and everyday people whose lives have been impacted by this long, unresolved Korean War. In July, there was a historic vote in US Congress as part of the National Defense Authorization Act,...
Farshad Farahat is a writer and actor (Argo, House of Cards) who is studying for a PhD in Conflict Resolution at Nova Southeastern, focusing on resolving US-Iran grievances. He is on the Ploughshares Fund board of directors and is now performing in ...
Stephen Miles will join Ploughshares Fund in Portland and Seattle for his first-ever West Coast tour to share how he and Win Without War are working with policymakers, experts, media, and advocacy groups to advance national security and foreign policies that make us all safer. Given the Pacific...
Miles Anderson stumbled upon Ploughshares Fund 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 Fund’s positive and hopeful approach to nuclear policy grabbed their...
Today, we announce an exciting leadership transition at Ploughshares Fund — the appointment of Elizabeth Warner as managing director and the departure of longtime Chief Operating Officer Philip Yun, who has accepted a wonderful offer to become president of World Affairs.
Ploughshares Fund is proud to join a host of pro-diplomacy organizations in calling on Congressional Armed Services committee leadership to include the crucial Ro Khanna and Rep. Matt Gaetz amendment in the final NDAA. Read the full letter here.
MICHELLE: Welcome back to Early Warning. Today I am joined by Leon Ratz, Senior Program Officer in the Materials Risk Management program at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and Mary Kaszynski, Ploughshares’s very own Deputy Director of Policy. Thank you both for joining me. MARY: Thanks. LEON:...
MICHELLE: Welcome back to Early Warning. I'm your host, Michelle Dover, Director of Programs here at Ploughshares Fund. And today I am joined by Joe Cirincione, President and also co-host of the podcast with me. And Tom Collina, Director of Policy here at Ploughshares. Gentlemen, welcome....
This is a transcript of a recent interview from the podcast Press the Button. Lynn Rusten, Vice President of the Global Nuclear Policy Program at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, sits down with Joe Cirincione to discuss the history of arms control between the United States and Russia, and how the...
