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A Day to Remember
Today, people in communities throughout the nation will stop for a moment to pause and remember the toll of the nation’s nuclear weapons testing program on downwind citizens. Some will take part in official ceremonies; others are small groups of downwinders coming together to do something as simple as light candles in memory of loved ones who have died. They’ve waited a long time to be officially recognized by the government that harmed them. Read more »
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Posted on January 26, 2012
CTBT, downwinders, Nevada, radiation, Rob DeBirk, Senate, U.S. Congress, United States Senate, United States
Time to End Nuclear Testing
  How many tests are enough before you know that nuclear weapons are unacceptably destructive? The answer, it seems, is 2,053. That is the number of nuclear tests conducted worldwide since the Manhattan Project’s initial Trinity explosion in Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1945. Shockingly, over half of these tests have taken place here in the United States. Read more »
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Posted by Megan Murphy on January 25, 2012
CTBT, CTBT & Nuclear testing, International relations, Manhattan Project, National Day, Nevada, Nuclear warfare, radiation
Reaching Zero
As the Obama Administration prepares to release its overdue Nuclear Posture Review next week,  Jonathan Schell writes that "it will give the administration's answer to the key questions: What nuclear forces should the United States deploy? Why? What, if anything, does the United States propose to do with them?" Read more »
Posted by Deborah Bain on April 2, 2010
CTBT, Nuclear Posture Review, nuclear security summit, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Terrorism, Proliferation, U.S. Nuclear Policy, START
2010, the year for rebuilding the movement for nuclear disarmament
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Posted on March 12, 2010
CTBT, disarmament, Nonproliferation & NPT, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Zero, US–Russia, Proliferation, U.S. Nuclear Policy, United States
Vice President Biden Reaffirms America's Commitment to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech today to a packed auditorium at the National Defense University, reiterating the President’s commitment to a nuclear security strategy that will protect Americans by providing our military with the tools it needs to combat today’s threats. Read more »
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Posted by Alexandra Bell on February 18, 2010
CTBT, Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation, U.S. Nuclear Policy, START, United States
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The Sky is Falling -- on John Bolton
William Hartung, director of the Ploughshares-funded Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, counters John Bolton’s piece published in the Washington Examiner. "John Bolton has made a cottage industry out of trying to scare people about nuclear weapons" writes Hartung. Read more »
Posted on February 8, 2010
CTBT, South Asia, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, US–Russia, U.S. Nuclear Policy, START, United States
Greg Thielmann
Worried about Iran? Ratify Test Ban Treaty
Greg Thielmann, senior fellow at the Ploughshares-funded Arms Control Association, outlines his strategy for using the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to respond to the Iranian nuclear threat. “A global test ban is particularly damaging to Iran's nuclear weapons option because of the way Tehran has presented its nuclear program to the Iranian people and the world. Read more »
Posted on January 22, 2010
CTBT, Nuclear States, Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation, Iran, United States
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Arms control leaders convene major policy strategy session at Ploughshares Fund
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. "This is going to be the fight of our lives," said Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione shortly after the meeting concluded today. Read more »
Posted by Deborah Bain on January 12, 2010
CTBT, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Nuclear Policy, START, United States
2010
2010 to be key year in fight against nuclear arms
Next year will be crucial for global nuclear non-proliferation efforts.  All eyes will be on the United States and Russia to see if the two top atomic powers can reach a deal to reduce their arsenals. Read more »
Posted on December 22, 2009
CTBT, NPT, Nuclear Weapons, US–Russia, U.S. Nuclear Policy, START, United States
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Arms control: no longer just for men
“Ever been to an arms control meeting?”Joe Cirincione asks Politico.  “It’s all old white guys.” The old boys' network is starting to change, with women leading some of the most critical arms control initiatives in the Obama Adminstration.  (Many, including Rose Gottemoeller, chief negotiator for START, and Read more »
Posted by Deborah Bain on December 10, 2009
CTBT, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Nuclear Policy, START, United States