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"By canceling plans to station antiballistic-missile systems in Poland and the Czech Re-public, President Obama has traded fantasy for reality," writes Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek In
As President Obama prepares for a major address at the United Nations this week on nuclear weapons, he faces resistance from entrenched interests, in and outside government, to his vision of a world without nuclear weapons. Julian Borger of UK's
Ploughshares Fund and our grantees have been at the forefront of the debate over missile defense, developing expert analyses, testifying before Congress, and raising questions. Read what they are saying today in the wake of President Obama's announced decision to fundamentally revamp the sy
"The Obama administration's decision announced today to cancel the deeply flawed antimissile systems in Eastern Europe is sound policy based on the best intelligence and technical assessments," writes Joe Cirincione in Foreign Policy.
Dr. David Liddington, British Conservative Party Member of Parliament and Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister has some advice for the U.S. on the follow-on to START and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty:
Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione invited activists, philanthropists and social entrepreneurs gathered at the Momentum Leadership Conference in San Francisco on September 9th to join in the effort to realize President
Iran almost certainly has taken significant steps to build nuclear weapons, assuming that intelligence about its actions is authentic, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said yesterday.
Amid increasing evidence of divisions within the Obama Administration about nuclear weapons policy, nuclear experts are calling on the President to accelerate his efforts to achieve the vision of a nuclear weapon-free world he articulated in a groundbreaking speech in Prague last April.
North Korea announced that it is in the final stages of enriching uranium, a process that could give it a second way to make nuclear bombs in addition to its known plutonium-based program.