Tom Z. Collina
Director of Policy
Washington, DCTom Collina is director of policy at Ploughshares Fund, with 30 years of Washington, DC experience in nuclear weapons, missile defense and nonproliferation issues. Tom is co-author, with former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, of The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump, published in 2020. Tom also co-hosts the Ploughshares Fund podcast Press the Button. He has testified before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees and has been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. Tom has a degree in International Relations from Cornell University.
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Select Publications and Media Appearances
- Who Can We Trust With the Nuclear Button? No One., The New York Times, June 22, 2020
- Why Are We Rebuilding the 'Nuclear Sponge'?, The National Interest, November 6, 2019
- How to Stave Trump's Lust for Nukes, POLITICO, September 10, 2019
- The Cruise Missile Could Be Mattis's Nuclear Crisis, The National Interest, January 20, 2017
- Barack Obama urged to take nuclear weapons off high alert to stop Donald Trump 'blowing up planet', The Independent, January 6, 2017
- How President Trump Might Radically Rethink US Nuclear Policy, Foreign Policy, November 16, 2016
- The Non-Nuclear Option, Moyers and Company, September 2, 2016
- Your Call: Modernizing U.S. nuclear arsenal could cost $1 trillion, KALW - San Francisco, August 4, 2016
- America Would Never Be the First to Use Nukes. So Why Say We Might?, The National Interest, July 28, 2016
- The Iran Deal is Working. Don’t Mess With Success, The Hill, July 15, 2016
- How to Slow President Trump From Pushing The Nuclear Button, Defense One, June 30, 2016
- A Good Iran Deal, Defense One, June 23, 2016
- Russia views US missile defense system as a 'threat', CNN, May 13, 2016
- What Obama Really Needs to Say in Hiroshima, Foreign Policy, May 10, 2016
- The Ugly Truth About Nuclear Terrorism, National Interest, April 11, 2016
- As Leaders Gather For Nuclear Summit, A Look Back At Progress And Pitfalls, NPR, April 4, 2016