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.
Right now, a crucial battle is being waged in the U.S. Capitol. Senators are considering the New START treaty, an agreement between America and Russia to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in our two countries.
Mitt Romney this week ignored our top military leaders, deepened the split in GOP ranks, made profound factual blunders rivaling Michael Steele's and turned his back on Ronald Reagan's legacy. So why don't you know about this?
"What are nukes good for?" David Hoffman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and contributing editor to Foreign Policy, unpacks this critical and unanswered question in a recent blog.
The New START treaty has passed its tipping point. The majority of living former secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, and national security advisors are now on record that New START strengthens U.S. national security. That is 13 out of 24. None has opposed the treaty.
Thirty distinguished national security leaders - including Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, George Shultz, Lee Hamilton, and many more - expressed their bipartisan support for the New START Treaty as a "necessary and appropriate step toward safeguarding our national security."
Ploughshares Fund and the Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center) in Russia will co-host an event called "New START Signed, What's Next?" The event will take place in Moscow June 25, 2010 and will focus on t
When I moved to Takoma Park with my wife, Priscilla, and daughter, Amy, 29 years ago, it was already a Nuclear-Free Zone. I have been working on nuclear weapons issues ever since and for the first time in my professional career that local stand has a realistic chance of becoming national and global policy.