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With enough nuclear material to build more than 120,000 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs spread around the globe, and significant amounts of these materials inadequately secured in dangerous regions, it’s time to get serious about rapidly locking down and reducing these dangerous stockpiles, write Alexandra Toma, program director at the Connect US Fund (and former Ploughshares Fund staff member), and Kenneth Luongo director of the Ploughshares-funded Partnership for Global Security.
Syria in 2007 received approximately 45 tons of raw uranium from North Korea for use in producing fuel for a secret nuclear reactor, informed military and diplomatic sources told Kyodo News on Saturday (see GS
The Iranian government has a deliberate policy aimed at confusing the outside world about its goals and decision-making processes, writes Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council in
Although details still remain to be worked out, Russia and the United States have reached an “agreement in principle” on the START follow-on treaty, administration officials and press reports said last month, Tom Collina, Research D
On the 40th anniversary of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), Arms Control Today, the journal of the Ploughshares Fund grantee Arms Control Association spoke with Susan Burk, specia
The debate within the Obama Adminstration that has delayed release of the congressionally-mandated Nuclear Posture Review centers on the fundamental question regarding nuclear weapons: What are they for? Regardless of whether the final document states that the weapons exist solely for the p
What if Israeli leaders and pundits had reacted to the Iranian nuclear program in a completely different way than they actually have, asks Ploughshares Fund grantee Avner Cohen in an op-ed in
After famines plagued North Korea in the 1990s, the country witnessed a resurgence of tuberculosis. Thanks to efforts by Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) to forge broader engagement with North Korea, Sta
National Iranian American Council President Trita Parsi testified in Congress yesterday about the importance of addressing the human rights situation in Iran, and why Iran is sensitive to pressure on human righ
President Barack Obama pledged in Prague on April 5, 2009, to pursue “the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” Key treaties, negotiations, and conferences in 2010