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.
God and the Bomb: Christian Faith and the Nuclear Threat
Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, a Ploughshares grantee and director of the Two Futures Project, makes a compelling case for why religious traditions and principles compel us to eliminate nuclear weapons.
New analysis of the effects of monsoon flooding in Pakistan have revealed that some of the worst affected areas are those which were already home to intense violence and insurgent conflict.
Tonight in San Francisco, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes will be speaking at the Herbst Theatre about his newest book, Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons. Rhodes is a friend of the Ploughshares Fund, having spoken at a recent screening of Countdown to Zero, and is among the foremost experts on the history of the U.S. nuclear weapons enterprise.
William Broad of the New York Times reports on the cameramen behind the iconic images of mushroom clouds and nuclear fireballs in his recent article, "
In a strong, bipartisan vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today passed the Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), sending the treaty to the full Senate for consideration.
Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione is currently traveling in Australia and New Zealand as part of a speaker's tour, organized by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs.
Ploughshares Fund Program Officer Haleh Hatami is in Islamabad, Pakistan visiting grantees and conducting research on the Ploughshares Fund’s investment strategy in conflict prevention in South Asia.
"With the December 2009 expiration of the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), the United States is unable, for the first time in more than 20 years, to conduct nuclear arms inspections inside Russia," wrote Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Inspection in a recent Arms Control Today article.