ICBM

  • Perry and Collina Statement on Air Force Contract Award for New Nuclear ICBM

    Perry and Collina Statement on Air Force Contract Award for New Nuclear ICBM

    Today, the Pentagon announced a $13.3 billion contract award (part of a larger $100 billion program) to Northrop Grumman to build the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missile, a replacement for existing nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) – a sole-source contract...

    September 8, 2020 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Phase Out America’s ICBMs

    Phase Out America’s ICBMs

    Russia and the United States have started rebuilding their Cold War nuclear arsenals, putting us on the threshold of a new and dangerous arms race. But we don’t have to replay this drama. The US plan to rebuild and maintain its nuclear force is needlessly oversized and expensive, expected to...

    November 15, 2016 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Reduce the US Nuclear Arsenal, with or without Russia

    Reduce the US Nuclear Arsenal, with or without Russia

    Speaking in Berlin in 2013, President Barack Obama offered to reduce US deployed strategic nuclear forces to about 1,000 warheads, or one-third below the limits of the 2010 New START Treaty. This is sound policy, as the US military has determined that it can ensure the security of the United...

    November 15, 2016 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Break with Cold War Thinking

    Break with Cold War Thinking

    Dear 45th President, welcome to the White House. You now have an opportunity to make a lasting impact on national and international policy. But whatever your priorities may be — national security, education, immigration, the deficit or the environment — one issue can trump them all: nuclear...

    November 15, 2016 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • New Report: 10 Big Nuclear Ideas for the Next President

    New Report: 10 Big Nuclear Ideas for the Next President

    President-elect Donald Trump will soon have to focus seriously on nuclear policy. With this in mind, Ploughshares Fund invited some of the best thinkers in the field to come up with ten bold ideas to help make America safer and more secure. ...

    November 14, 2016 - By Tom Collina
  • 10 Big Nuclear Ideas Launch Event

    10 Big Nuclear Ideas Launch Event

    We are releasing our new report, "10 Big Nuclear Ideas for the Next President" at an event you can watch on Facebook via livestream. At this event, Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 12:45pm ET / 9:45 am PT, you can see these ideas discussed...

    November 8, 2016 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • It's Time to Retire the ICBM

    It's Time to Retire the ICBM

    In January 2016, in an interview published by the Arms Control Association, William J. Perry, the US Secretary of Defense in the...

    August 2, 2016 - By Will Lowry

  • Ploughshares Fund Grantee Drives National Security News - With His Blog

    Ploughshares Fund grantee, Jeffrey Lewis, broke a major story this week creating headlines around the country.

    April 27, 2012 - By Joe Cirincione