For Martin Luther King, Jr., the struggle against racism was part of a larger struggle against poverty, war and injustice. Central to his vision was stopping the nuclear arms race.
About 50 senior think tank and advocacy executives packed the K Street conference room of the Ploughshares Fund to strategize and rally the troops for the upcoming policy war.
The Ploughshares-funded Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced today the move of the minute hand of the "Doomsday Clock" by one minute. This decision emphasizses how much needs to be accomplished, while at the same time
A new U.S.-Russian nuclear arms agreement to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is a month overdue and will take another couple of weeks at least to complete. Most of the 100+ page document is already agreed to in principle, including the headline numbers.
With its latest editorial calling for more nuclear weapons and more weapons spending, the Wall Street Journal has gone over a journalistic cliff. The serious factual errors in its Jan. 5 screed, "A False Nuclear Start," raise serious questions about the newspaper's credibility and integrity.