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 Energy Department is releasing more than $6 billion in stimulus money for contractors, including many that have been cited for serious safety violations and costly mistakes, to clean up nuclear sites. The cleanup program, long plagued by cost overrun
Russia and the U.S. are due to begin talks on a new treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons. The Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty, or START 1, is due to expire in December.
Members of Congress were told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while wracked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan’s nuclear program. 
President Obama's use of the word “verifiable” in his April 5 Prague speech injected new hope into disarmament talks, putting the 65-nation Conference on Disarmam
Letters to the editor by several Ploughshares grantees appeared in the New York Times rebutting Philip Taubman’s recent piece that questioned the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. Bill Hartung of the New America Foundation commented, “Nuclear weapons serve no military purpose, and the use of even one — whether intentionally or by accident — would cause unparalleled destruction. That is why their elimination is being demanded not only by a growing roster of former diplomats, but by former secretaries of defense and retired generals as well.”
Energy Secretary Steven Chu was among the thousands who observed national Bike to Work Day, as were most of the San Francisco staff of Ploughshares Fund. A