Ploughshares Blog: United Kingdom

On Thursday, Rachel Maddow asked me if President Obama was going to fulfill the visionary agenda he laid out four years ago in Prague. I paused. What should I say? I support this agenda to move us step by step towards what Obama termed "the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." But progress has been slow. I took a deep breath and answered the only way I could: honestly. Read more »
Posted by Joe Cirincione on April 5, 2013
  On the radar: Charting START data; Gates says Iran strike would “prove catastrophic”; Iran’s currency crisis; Sanctions and the role of flexibility; South Korean missiles; and Catch 22 for UK atomic veterans.   Read more »
Posted on October 4, 2012
Last week, a British-German delegation of the European Leadership Network (ELN) made the rounds in Washington. ELN, a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in the United Kingdom, works to promote the idea of multilateral nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. The group has built and continues to expand an impressive, high-level network of senior political, military and diplomatic leaders. Read more »
Posted by Rebecca Remy on April 23, 2012
Countdown to Zero, the compelling new documentary on the danger nuclear weapons pose to global security,is opening in the United Kingdom on June 21, where 77 theaters around the country will premiere the film. Read more »
Posted by Megan Murphy on June 13, 2011