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VIDEO – A Bold Future: New Arms Race

Watch A New Arms Race from Chain Reaction: A Bold Future! Share it with your friends, and stay engaged in the fight to reduce and eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons. The history of nuclear weapons is wrought with heedless warnings and failed safeguards. Norms against nuclear proliferation and use that have defined global security for decades…

What is Field Building anyway?

Ploughshares’ new approach to our organizational strategy. The goal: To transform the nuclear field, making it a modern, skilled workforce capable of collective action to respond to urgent nuclear threats and emboldened to achieve our mission to eventually eliminate nuclear weapons altogether. We are doing this by continuing our role as grant maker and convener…

Interview with Field Building Director Habib Bako

Question 1: How did you fall into this work? I didn’t envisage this being my career path. For starters, I don’t view my position as proverbial “work,”with a regular “clocking in and clocking out,” but more as a way of living—what some might call a vocation. As long as I can remember, my contributions to…

Donor Spotlight: Miles Anderson

Miles Anderson stumbled upon Ploughshares ten years ago while reading the newspaper. He and his late wife, Erica, both career musicians, were drawn to organizations that represent the values they hold dear. Ploughshares’s positive and hopeful approach to nuclear policy grabbed their attention immediately. Of the global nuclear arsenal Miles says, “If we had really…

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