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.
Jessica Lee is a Senior Research Fellow in the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington, DC think tank laying the foundation for a new US foreign policy centered on diplomatic engagement and military restraint. Previously, Jessica led the Council of...
This week Press the Button features a bonus episode with 19th US Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, who joins co-host Tom Collina in discussing control over the US nuclear arsenal during President Donald Trump's final days in office. An engaging podcast on nuclear policy and...
Watch the full video of Unmute Yourself: The First 100 Days, a special post-election analysis of the state of national security and nuclear weapons policy that took place on January 25, 2021. Back by popular demand, the event featured Kelsey Davenport, Director of Nonproliferation Policy at Arms...
Beatrice Fihn is executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) — the coalition that worked tirelessly to promote the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work and Beatrice accepted the prize with Setsuko...
SALLY LILIENTHAL WAS ON A QUEST TO CHANGE THE WORLD. It was 1981, and she had invited public service leader Lew Butler and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Owen Chamberlain down the wooden staircase to a living room balcony extending over a San Francisco cliff below. Chamberlain, one of the world’s...
The Ploughshares Fund board of directors recently awarded $1.3 million in new grants to 21 organizations working to reduce nuclear risks and prevent conflict in regions where nuclear weapons exist. “The new administration means we will have additional opportunities to elevate these objectives in...
Less than twenty-four hours before major news organizations called the presidential election for the former vice president, national security expert Heather Hurlburt was already envisioning the consequences of a Joe Biden win. “There are going to be some huge changes right off the bat,” she said...
Watch the full video recording of the event, above. At the November 18, 2020 Ploughshares Fund nuclear policy forum we learned about the national security outlook for the Biden administration and how hundreds of billions of dollars in excessive nuclear weapons spending could be better spent on...
At the November 18, 2020 forum we learned about the national security outlook for the Biden administration and how hundreds of billions of dollars in excessive nuclear weapons spending could be better spent on higher national priorities such as responses to coronavirus, racial injustice and...
At the November 18, 2020 forum we learned about the national security outlook for the Biden administration and how hundreds of billions of dollars in excessive nuclear weapons spending could be better spent on higher national priorities such as responses to coronavirus, racial injustice and...
At the November 18, 2020 forum we learned about the national security outlook for the Biden administration and how hundreds of billions of dollars in excessive nuclear weapons spending could be better spent on higher national priorities such as responses to coronavirus, racial injustice and...
At the November 18, 2020 Ploughshares Fund nuclear policy forum we learned about the national security outlook for the Biden administration and how hundreds of billions of dollars in excessive nuclear weapons spending could be better spent on higher national priorities such as responses to...
At the November 18, 2020 forum we learned about the national security outlook for the Biden administration and how hundreds of billions of dollars in excessive nuclear weapons spending could be better spent on higher national priorities such as responses to coronavirus, racial injustice and...
At the November 18, 2020 forum we learned about the national security outlook for the Biden administration and how hundreds of billions of dollars in excessive nuclear weapons spending could be better spent on higher national priorities such as responses to coronavirus, racial injustice and...
With the aim of convening partners who have a range of backgrounds and experiences to think big about transforming nuclear policy, new Ploughshares Fund President Emma Belcher announces today the first slate of special grants under her tenure. As part of the discretionary grants process and the...
