Early Warning

  • Discussing the Iran Crisis

    Discussing the Iran Crisis

    Today on Early Warning, we are focusing on two questions. What do we know about the escalation we saw last week between the United States and Iran and what should we be doing about it now? Here to answer these questions are Kate Kizer, policy director at Win Without War, and Tom Collina, policy...

    January 15, 2020 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Iran's nuclear program, new Russian weapons, and Congress's return to Washington

    Iran's nuclear program, new Russian weapons, and Congress's return to Washington

    MICHELLE: Welcome back to Early Warning. Today I am joined by Leon Ratz, Senior Program Officer in the Materials Risk Management program at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and Mary Kaszynski, Ploughshares’s very own Deputy Director of Policy. Thank you both for joining me. MARY: Thanks. LEON:...

    September 12, 2019 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Beginning of the Nuclear Arms Race, the National Defense Authorization Act, Iran-Israel tensions

    Beginning of the Nuclear Arms Race, the National Defense Authorization Act, Iran-Israel tensions

    MICHELLE: Welcome back to Early Warning. I'm your host, Michelle Dover, Director of Programs here at Ploughshares Fund. And today I am joined by Joe Cirincione, President and also co-host of the podcast with me. And Tom Collina, Director of Policy here at Ploughshares. Gentlemen, welcome....

    September 4, 2019 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Zarif at the G7, US-North Korea negotiations, India and No First-Use and stopping hurricanes

    Zarif at the G7, US-North Korea negotiations, India and No First-Use and stopping hurricanes

    MICHELLE: Welcome back to another Early Warning. I'm Michelle Dover, Director of Programs here at Ploughshares Fund. Today I am joined by my colleagues, our resident Roger Hale fellow here at Ploughshares, Catherine Killough, and Research Associate at the Federation of American Scientists, Matt...

    August 26, 2019 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Controversy at State Department, prospects for US-DPRK talks, and Iranian oil tanker

    Controversy at State Department, prospects for US-DPRK talks, and Iranian oil tanker

    JOE: Great, I want to start with you, Mary, right off on Iran because you've got a couple of stories to cover today and let me start with something that's not happening in the Middle East, but it's happening in Foggy...

    August 19, 2019 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Nuclear explosion in Russia, US and Europe's differing Iran policy

    Nuclear explosion in Russia, US and Europe's differing Iran policy

    MICHELLE: Thank you, Joe. Welcome back to another Early Warning. I'm Michelle Dover and I'm joined today by Deputy Director of Policy here at Ploughshares, Mary Kaszynski, and Global Zero's Program Director, Jessica Sleight. Thank you both for joining me. So you know the drill. We have seven...

    August 13, 2019 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Emergency meeting in Vienna, North Korea’s recent missile launches

    Emergency meeting in Vienna, North Korea’s recent missile launches

    Michelle: This weekend we saw an emergency meeting in Vienna with officials from Iran, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, basically everybody except the US who signed up to the deal. And the point of the meeting was to see whether there was a way to save the agreement in light of the...

    July 30, 2019 - By Ploughshares Fund