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Russia and the United States will sign a new nuclear arms deal shortly, the Russian foreign ministry said Wednesday. Sergei Lavrov sounded upbeat Wednesday when asked about the prospects for a quick successor deal to the 1991 START I treaty that expired Friday.
Kingston Reif, the Deputy Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, writes, “The approach of some vocal Republicans to the 'New START' negotiations goes something like this: Suggest a dozen differe
On December 3, 2009, Ploughshares Fund’s Executive Director Naila Bolus was honored with the Unsung Hero Award at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Deputy Director of CNS,
The Obama administration must act quickly to reinvigorate its human rights agenda, because failure to do so may cause any future focus on Iran's human rights violations to be viewed solely as a means to punish Tehran, rather than a strategic imperative worthy of pursuit in its own right writes
President Obama will be receiving the world's most prestigious peace prize nine days after announcing his decision to escalate an increasingly unpopular war. Brookings Institution President and Ploughshares Fund grantee Stobe Talbott sugg
In a statement Tuesday, the head of the U.S. delegation to the Second Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty informed participants that the Obama administration has begun a comprehensive landmine policy review.
Ploughshares Fund's Kelly Bronk reports on a panel convened by the Heritage Foundation, previewing the emerging right-wing attack line on the Obama Administration’s nuclear policy.
Former foreign secretaries and foreign affairs experts from Pakistan and India declared that the entire Siachen glacier area in the disputed Kashmir region should be turned into an international peace park under the supervision of United Nations. The three-day Track-II dialogue on con
Nuclear bombs are stored on air force bases in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) estimates that there are some 200 B61 thermonuclear gravity bombs scattered across these four countries.