For over 36 years Ploughshares Fund has supported the most effective people and organizations in the world to reduce and eventually eliminate the dangers posed by nuclear weapons.
We welcome Kavita N. Ramdas to our Board of Directors. A prominent figure in women’s rights, advocacy and public affairs, Ramdas was a featured panelist at “Chain Reaction: Women in Security” in June 2016, in which women involved in arms control and nuclear security efforts came together to...
Videos, in chronological order, from the conference: 1. Welcoming Comments from Joe Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund; Opening Address: Congresswoman Barbara Lee 2. Senator Dianne Feinstein 3. Senator Ed Markey 4. Congressman Ted Lieu 5. Congressman Adam Smith 6. Future of the Iran Deal 7...
At the end of the Cold War, President George H.W. Bush authorized the withdrawal of most US tactical nuclear weapons deployed abroad, including approximately 100 nuclear weapons based in South Korea (September 1991). Shortly after, the two Koreas signed the South-North Joint Declaration on the...
President Trump's erratic policies, insults and inflammatory tweets are increasing the chances that we may go to war with North Korea. This would be a catastrophe unlike anything we have seen since World War II. Millions could die. North Korea's nuclear and missile tests must stop, but Trump's...
The Congressional Budget Office, CBO, recently released a new report estimating that the Trump administration’s plans to maintain and replace the US nuclear arsenal over 30 years would cost $1.2 trillion in constant dollars....
Many people think the Cold War is behind us. But the nuclear threats we face today are graver than they’ve been since the 1980’s. Whatever happens in the coming years, be it the continued threat of war with North Korea or renewed conflict with Iran, it's our generation (millennials, generation...
Join us on Thursday, October 26th on Facebook for a live streamed, in-depth briefing on nuclear weapons policy in a time of crisis. This event will be live streamed on the Ploughshares Fund Facebook page.
Today, President Trump took the first step towards killing the international agreement that stops Iran from building nuclear weapons and prevents a new war in the Middle East. Ending this historic agreement puts both possibilities back in play. At his press conference this morning, Trump...
President Trump, responding to questions about what security assurances he would give North Korea following the historic Singapore Summit, said “We will be stopping the war games.” The announcement has reignited a debate...
We're bringing together the best and brightest to stop a bomb, and to stop a war. The Iran nuclear agreement was a major victory for national and global security. Negotiated by the US and other world powers, the agreement stopped an Iranian bomb from being developed without starting a new war in...
President Donald Trump is creating another crisis, and this could be the worst of all. He is planning next week to begin pulling the United States out of the agreement made with the nations of the world to stop Iran’s nuclear program. He reportedly will say that the accord, approved unanimously...
On October 6, 2017, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). According to the Nobel Committee, ICAN is receiving the award "for...
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations in one hundred countries promoting adherence to and implementation of the United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty. This landmark global agreement was adopted in New York on...
Together with the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI), Ploughshares Fund recently provided a periodic forum for in-depth exploration of arguments on both sides of key nuclear policy issues. Debate: European Missile Defenses for NATO, February 16, 2017: Frank Rose, Former Assistant Secretary of...
Like you, I am deeply worried. Everything we worked so hard to achieve is under attack. President Trump is overturning decades of bipartisan efforts that have blocked the spread of the deadliest weapons ever built. New policies coming out of the White House and Congress threaten the progress we...
