Biological and Chemical Weapons

  • Fox News

    Joe appears on Fox News to discuss WMDs in Libya. 

    March 8, 2011 - By Reid Pauly

  • How We Dodged Libya's Nuclear Bullet

    In a stunning trans-Atlantic announcement on December 19, 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush said Libya had agreed, after nine months of secret talks, to publicly disclose and dismantle all nuclear,

    March 1, 2011 - By Joe Cirincione

  • Egypt's Nuclear Dimension

    As a free Egypt transforms itself, analysts are nervously watching for signs of new nuclear ambitions. Concern revolves around three issues:

    February 13, 2011 - By Joe Cirincione

  • Fox News

    Joe appears on Fox News to discuss WMD programs in Egypt.  

    February 9, 2011 - By Reid Pauly

  • Senator Richard Lugar Voted Arms Control Person of the Year

    Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) garnered the highest number of votes in an online poll to determine the "2009 Arms Control Person of the Year." Lugar was nominated for "his long-running support for U.S.

    January 4, 2010 - By Anonymous

  • Arms Control Today Interview with Ellen Tauscher

     Arms Control Today, published by the Ploughshares-funded Arms Control Association, inaugurates its

    November 6, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Crisis Group warns of North Korea's chemical weapons

    Amid all of the concern about North Korea's nuclear program, experts at the Ploughshares-funded International Crisis Group warn that Korea’s stockpile of chemical weapons poses another serious threat.  In a recent report, Crisis Group

    June 18, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Stockpile of chemical weapons in Siberia to be destroyed

    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.

    May 26, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Defense Department to accelerate chemical weapons disposal

    The U.S. Defense Department is seeking $550.4 million in 2010 to prepare sites in Kentucky and Colorado for chemical weapons disposal operations.

    May 8, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Experts blast Cheney statements on terror threats

    Interviewed in Politico, former Vice President Cheney warned of a “high probability” of an attempted nuclear or biological attack as a consequence of closing Guantanamo and reversing other Bush-era policies.

    February 5, 2009 - By Anonymous