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Playing Politics With Nuclear Security
When a Republican president negotiates reductions in nuclear arsenals, it is statecraft; when a Democratic president does the same, it is treason. That, at least, is the position advanced this week by several leading Republican politicians and their political advisors. Read more »
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Posted by Joe Cirincione on March 28, 2012
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Concrete Steps to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
All countries can – and must – do more to secure nuclear materials. And countries must take action today, not the day after terrorists explode a nuclear device in a major city. Read more »
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Posted by Kelly Bronk on January 19, 2012
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Preventing a Nuclear 9/11 in Three Easy Steps
Guest blog by Alexandra Toma This September 11, we will mourn those we lost. We will commemorate those who, like my high school classmate Andrew “Sterg” Stergiopoulos, sacrificed their lives to save others. And we will need to get serious about one of today’s top security threats: nuclear terrorism. Read more »
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Posted by admin on September 7, 2011
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How has the world changed?
What's different about the world in the wake of last week's Nuclear Security Summit, Rachel Maddow asked Joe Cirincione. Read more »
Posted by Deborah Bain on April 19, 2010
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A primer on nuclear material
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Posted by Deborah Bain on April 13, 2010
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Next steps on nuclear safety: Enforcement
"Later today, the Washington Nuclear Security Summit will conclude by issuing a communique pledging to concentrate the international mind around President Obama’s goal of securing all separated plutonium and highly enriched uranium within four years, in order to prevent nuclear terrorism," writes Spencer Ackerman in the Washington Independent.. Read more »
Posted by Deborah Bain on April 13, 2010
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World leaders, nuclear security experts arrive in Washington
"There is no margin for error here, and I think Obama intuitively understood that as soon as he got to the Senate," former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), a Ploughshares Fund board member, tells the Washington Post.  Hagel co-sponsored nuclear security legislation with Senate colleagues Barack Obama and Richard Lug Read more »
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Posted by Deborah Bain on April 11, 2010
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Joe on NPR: Doing our part to stop proliferation and nuclear terrorism
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Posted by Deborah Bain on April 11, 2010
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Bipartisan support for nuclear agenda
"Health care is a partisan issue. Economic stimulus is a partisan issue. Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has been a partisan issue," writes John Isaacs in the Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) blog.  "One of the few issues that rises to genuine non-partisanship is support for nuclear non-proliferation funding and the fight against nuclear terrorists. Read more »
Posted by Deborah Bain on April 8, 2010
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Preview of next week's Nuclear Security Summit
The threat of nuclear terrorism "is the rational behind next week's Nuclear Security Summit here in Washington, DC,"  said Alexandra Toma, co-chair of the Fissile Materials Working Group (and a former Ploughshares Fund staff member), as she welcomed reporters to a press briefing about the summit.  "The twin threats of nuclear terrorism and nuclear proliferation represent the most serious challenge Read more »
Posted by Deborah Bain on April 6, 2010
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