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New Bill to Bring Nunn-Lugar Into Next Generation
  On the radar: Nunn-Lugar 2.0; Uranium plant costs could double; Shipbuilding plan a “fantasy”; Nuclear security pacts clear House; Making amends; and Measuring Moore.   Read more »
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Posted on May 22, 2013
Nuclear Strategy, Spending on Autopilot
  On the radar: Reality vs rhetoric on nuclear spending; IAEA report preview; Detensioning; Minuteman test; and Dogtagging or tattooing children.   Read more »
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Posted on May 21, 2013
Your Vote Supports Our Work
Ploughshares Fund is honored to be on the ballot to receive funding from CREDO Mobile this year. CREDO is a progressive phone company that uses its business model to support charities like us. And we need your vote—the more votes we get, the more money we'll receive from CREDO. Read more »
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Posted by Samara Dun on May 20, 2013
CREDO, Partners, Philanthropy
Pakistan’s PM, Politics, and Prospects
  On the radar: Nawaz Sharif; Dealing with loose nukes; More missile launches; Obama’s opportunities for reductions; New pork for New York; Polling proliferation; and Nuke bunker turned into bat cave.   Read more »
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Posted on May 20, 2013
Missile Mission Malaise
  On the radar: Missiles lacking plausible mission; $10 billion nuclear budget buster; “Iran After the Bomb”; Sub pounding budgets; Debating Navy’s requirement; Nawaz Sharif’s pivot; and When military exercises stop being polite and start getting real.   Read more »
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Posted on May 17, 2013
Senate Pushing the Pressure Track on Iran
  On the radar: Pressure track speeds along; Iranian politics; Ankara’s atomic ambitions; Engaging China on North Korea; Aegis test; and AU celebrates 50th anniversary.   Read more »
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Posted on May 16, 2013
Political Moxie and Plutonium Pork
  On the radar: The politics of staving off demise of MOX; Subs eating shipbuilding funds; Bomb, coerce, or contain; North Korea sanctions update; Sanctions testimonies; and a Botched Soviet space laser.   Read more »
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Posted on May 15, 2013
What a Containment Strategy for Iran Could Look Like
  On the radar: Containment possible, not preferred; Chinese nuclear developments; Embargo economics; Missileer on the readiness shortfall; Casualties of a nuclear exchange; and House looks to block New START.   Read more »
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Posted on May 14, 2013
Three Paths toward a Nuclear Deal with Iran
It’s easy to miss amid the escalation of sanctions and nuclear bravado, but EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Tehran’s lead negotiator Saeed Jalili will meet on May 15 in Istanbul to follow up on last months talks between the P5+1 and Iran. The last round of multilateral talks ended inconclusively, and it has taken a little over a month to get even a one-on-one meeting on the calendar. While no date has been set for a new round of talks with representatives from all seven countries at the table, the upcoming meeting between Ashton and Jalili provides an opportunity to begin planning for how to make negotiations more productive than previous attempts. Getting on a road more promising than the current intermittent exchanges will require a few key steps: Read more »
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Posted by Reza Marashi on May 13, 2013
Nuclear proliferation, Partners, Reza Marashi, Iran, United States
Finding Budget Savings from the Nuclear Force
  On the radar: “Nuclear force economies”; Subs, budgets and requirements in flux; Missileer malaise; East Coast site evaluations; Upcoming IAEA talks; and Dennis the Menace to return to North Korea.   Read more »
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Posted on May 13, 2013