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"North Korea’s announcement that it had tested a nuclear device on Monday is a stark reminder of the many dangers out there," the New York Times said in an editorial today calling on the U.S.
Ploughshares Fund Program Director Paul Carroll tells KCBS Radio that North Korea's nuclear test "is more about internal relationships and regional dynamics" than a message to the U.S. Nonetheless, the Obama Administration's first priority is going to be "to get Bei
A new facility to destroy Russian chemical weapons will officially open on May 29, 2009. The joint U.S.-Russian project to eradicate the chemical weapons site in the Siberian city of Shchuchye, first proposed in 1996, has been repeatedly delayed.
Rebecca Griffin of Peace Action West, a Ploughshares grantee, has begun her two-week journey through Iran, searching for and creating ways to build ongoing dialo
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that Iran successfully test-fired a new medium-range missile, the first successful launch with a solid-fuel missile. Missiles that rely on solid-fuel propellant can be more easily transported and prepared for launch than their liquid-fuel counterparts. However, the test did not suggest Iran has expanded the reach of its missiles, said Greg Thielmann of the Ploughshares-funded Arms Control Association, and "thus, no new countries would be threatened by the new solid-(fueled missile) that are not already threatened." Paul Ingram of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), another Ploughshares grantee, stressed to Voice of America that it's difficult to determine if the test launch is a worrisome development, but that "it does sound like campaign rhetoric” by President Ahmedinejad.
Here are the first photos from our event at the Italian Embassy with Michael Douglas, Chuck Hagel, Bob Gallucci, and Sam Nunn. Check our Flickr page for updates. For more information on the event, please read here.