Nuclear States

  • Ploughshares Fund's Paul Carroll discusses North Korean launch

    Ploughshares Fund Program Director Paul Carroll analyzed North Korea’s recent missile launch on the KPFA Morning Show.  Carroll commented, “We need to keep in mind that this

    April 6, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • North Korea's missile flight a failure

    North Korea’s effort to fire a satellite into orbit failed, according to experts. From a technical standpoint, the failure would likely seriously delay the missile’s debut. “It’s got to be embarrassing,” said Ploughshares grantee Geoffrey Forden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “I can imagine heads flying if the ‘Dear Leader’ finds out the satellite didn’t fly into orbit.” 

    April 5, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • North Korean launch not cause for panic

    by Joseph Cirincione

    North Korea's thinly disguised missile test violates U.N. resolutions and should be condemned. But it is not a serious threat to the United States, nor does it justify a crash program to deploy an expensive, unproven anti-missile system.

    April 5, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione

  • International Outcry over North Korean Missile Launch

    Experts from around the world, including many leading Ploughshares Fund grantees, condemned the launch yesterday of what is believed to be North Korea's long-range Taepo Dong-2 rocket satellite carrier.  The Arms Control Asso

    April 5, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • U.S. may accept Iran's uranium enrichment

    U.S. officials are considering whether to accept Iran’s pursuit of uranium enrichment, which was outlawed by the UN and remains at the heart of fears that Iran seeks nuclear weapons capability.  Mark Fitzpatrick of the Ploughshares-funded International Institute for Strategic Studies said, “There’s a fundamental impasse between the western demand for no enrichment and the Iranian demand to continue enrichment.” The process can produce both nuclear fuel and weapons-grade material. Trita Parsi of the Ploughshares-funded National Iranian American Council commented, “There is a growing recognition in [Washington] that the zero [enrichment] solution, though still favored, simply is unfeasible.”

    April 4, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Experts call for direct U.S.-North Korea talks

    According to a group of U.S. experts, the United States should conduct direct talks with North Korea, alongside the current six-nation negotiations.  The group of 10 former senior U.S.

    April 3, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • David Albright discusses North Korean launch on MSNBC

    As North Korea fuels its long-range missile in preparation for launch, David Albright of the Ploughshares-funded Institute for Science and International Security discussed the possibilities of the laun

    April 2, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • What to do about Pyongyang

    by Henry Sokolski

    The Obama administration just lost Round 1 in its diplomatic engagement with North Korea. Despite White House pleas for Pyongyang not to violate United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSC) 1718, which bans North Korea from launching ballistic missiles, Pyongyang has finished its preparations to launch a “peaceful” space-launch vehicle, a system that is indistinguishable from an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Aggravating the insult, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a delegation of 15 senior Iranian launch experts from the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group to help out. Pyongyang announced it will fire the rocket sometime between April 4 and 8.

    April 2, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • CNN: Pending North Korea missile launch

    April 2, 2009 - By Ploughshares Fund

  • Engaging Iran on Afghanistan

    In testimony before the House of Representatives, Karim Sadjadpour of the Ploughshares-funded Carnegie Endowment for International Peace emphasized the importance of U.S.-Iran cooperation in Afghanistan.&nbs

    March 31, 2009 - By Sarah Brown