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.
"Beginning any moment now," writes Robert Wright of the Ploughshares-funded New America Foundation, "you’ll see a month-long trickle of news articles, op-eds and blog po
The lead U.S. negotiator on the new nuclear arms control treaty signed earlier this month by Russia and the United States yesterday called on the Senate to ratify the pact before fall.
New weapons systems should always meet three requirements: They should be feasible, needed, and affordable. The proposed Prompt Global Strike program, which according to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been "embraced by the new administration," does not meet any.
"Later today, the Washington Nuclear Security Summit will conclude by issuing a communique pledging to concentrate the international mind around President Obama’s goal of securing all separated plutonium and highly enriched uranium within four years, in order to prevent nuclear terrori
Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione will stop by The Rachel Maddow Show to talk with Rachel about the Nuclear Security Summit and what it means for our national security.