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.
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) was the first to report that the Department of Energy (DOE) had delayed a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) report about a potential major threat to public safety posed by plutonium at the Los Alamos Nation
Every day, the whirling centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment plant produce about 2.75 kilograms of the stuff, according to International Atomic Energy Agency data.
3D Security Initiative Director Lisa Schirch attended the annual meeting in the Philippines of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), a network of over 2,000 NGOs working to
North Korea's military provocations this year angered its ally China, but Beijing remains reluctant to tighten the screws on Pyongyang, the Ploughshares Fund grantee International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a
President Obama today nominated of Philip Coyle, a leading critic of Bush administration missile defense schemes, to be the Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the White House
Former Secretary of State George P. Schultz, who helped to re-energize global nuclear disarmament efforts with recent op-eds in the Wall Street Journal calling for a "world without nuclear weapons," has become the newest member of Ploughshares Fund's advisory board.
President Barack Obama has tapped Ploughshares Fund board member Chuck Hagel to co-chair the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. Historically, the intelligence panel has conducted investigations into intelligence b
The U.S. decision to cut $85 million in democracy funds for Iran has led to mixed reactions among Iranian-Americans, Iran analysts, rights activists and others.
The only benefit Iranian hardliners seek to gain in refusing to comply with the recent nuclear deal is to appear as the true defenders of the Iranian revolution, said Ploughshares Fund President Joseph Ciricione during an interview with PRI’s “The World” on Iran. Ciricione says the regime is on the rocks and the internal debate around the nuclear issue is the cause for Iranian mixed signals. Listen the full interview here.
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Waziristan are being neglected in a climate of animosity between Pashtuns from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and those from the settled area, says The International Crisis Group, a Ploughshares Fun
The amount of uranium needed at Qum, some 7 to 16 percent of Isfahan's stockpile, would be too great a diversion to go unnoticed, says Andreas Persbo, an arms-control analyst at VERTIC, a Ploughshares Fund gr
Iranian leaders failed to accept a proposal to ship most of their uranium abroad for enrichment. Iranian state TV said Tehran was waiting for a response to its own proposal to buy nuclear fuel instead. According to Jim Walsh, a proliferation