As the 189 signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty gather in New York this week for the five-year review of the progress toward the goals of the treaty, Ploughshares Fund staff, board members and grantees are providing analysis and commentary on the range of issues under discussion, from Iran's nuclear program to global efforts to achieve a nuclear weapon-free world. Read more »
The Ploughshares-funded Federation of American Scientists (FAS) premiered its new video, Paths to Zero, at the United Nations in New York in conjunction with the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. The video will be the core of a new interactive feature on the FAS website. Read more »
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote in the Wall Street Journal that "the New START Treaty has the unanimous support of America's military leadership, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of the service chiefs, and the commander of the U.S. Read more »
Shortly after nuclear weapons sleuths Tom Cochran and Bill Arkin published their unauthorized estimate of the size of the U.S. arsenal in 1984, they got a call from alarmed U.S. Read more »
In this Bloggingheads conversation, Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Ploughshares-funded Arms Control Association, discusses what is at stake, what the Obama administration is hoping will come out of the conference, and what role Iran might play as a spoiler in the negotiations.
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