Nuclear Terrorism

With enough nuclear material to build more than 120,000 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs spread around the globe, and significant amounts of these materials inadequately secured in dangerous regions, it’s time to get serious about rapidly locking down and reducing these dangerous stockpiles, write Alexandra Toma, program director at the Connect US Fund (and former Ploughshares Fund staff member), and Kenneth Luongo director of the Ploughshares-funded Partnership for Global Security.  Read more >>

On Monday night's Colbert Report, Stephen challenges Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione to a round of "sanction, bomb or marry," acts out the effects of a nuclear explosion from his chair, and concludes by telling Joe, "You, sir, are the bomb!" Read more >>

Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione invited activists, philanthropists and social entrepreneurs gathered at the Momentum Leadership Conference in San Francisco on September 9th to join in the effort to realize President Obama's vision of a nuclear weapon-free world.

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During a visit Sunday to Prague for a U.S.-European Union summit, President Obama unveiled plans to cut atomic stockpiles, curtail testing, choke fissile production and secure loose nuclear material. He said he wanted an immediate end to nuclear tests, confirmed he would seek Senate approval of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and would hold a global summit on nuclear security within the next year. Watch the video. Read more >>