Nuclear Weapons

  • Speaking in Prague, Obama Outlines Plan for a World without Nuclear Weapons

    During a visit Sunday to Prague for a U.S.-European Union summit, President Obama unveiled plans to cut atomic stockpiles, curtail testing, choke fissile production and secure loose nuclear material.

    April 5, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • Obama's nuclear-free call taps global momentum

    Speaking on President Obama's speech in Prague calling for a nuclear-free world, Joe Cirincione told AFP that Obama was right

    April 5, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione

  • 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

  • Obama's Forthcoming Nuclear Policy Speech

    Obama's Forthcoming Nuclear Policy Speech

    April 3, 2009  -  This is the nuclear policy speech we have been waiting for. President Obama will make a landmark nuclear policy speech in Prague this Sunday April 5th. Today, speaking to a crowd in Strasbourg, President Obama said, “Even with the Cold War now over, the spread of nuclear weapons, or the theft of nuclear material, could lead to the extermination of any city on the planet.”

    April 3, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione

  • Obama's Forthcoming Nuclear Policy Speech

    by Joseph Cirincione

    This is the nuclear policy speech we have been waiting for.

    President Obama will make a landmark nuclear policy speech in Prague this Sunday April 5th.

    April 3, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione

  • Obama, Medvedev agree to talks to curb nuclear arsenals

    In their first face-to-face meeting, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev agreed to open negotiations on a treaty that could slash nuclear arsenals by a third, part of what they described as a new era in relations.

    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

  • U.S. and Russia take first steps towards reducing nuclear arsenals

    April 2, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • CNN: Pending North Korea missile launch

    April 2, 2009 - By Ploughshares Fund