Nuclear States

Trita Parsi:End Silence on Human Rights Abuses in Iran

The Obama administration must act quickly to reinvigorate its human rights agenda, because failure to do so may cause any future focus on Iran's human rights violations to be viewed solely as a means to punish Tehran, rather than a strategic imperative worthy of pursuit in its own right writes

December 7, 2009 - By Anonymous
State Department - Toward a Nuclear-Free World

The State Department website is featuring an online forum called Toward a Nuclear-Free World with information on U.S.

December 7, 2009 - By Anonymous
Are nuclear talks with Iran salvageable?

Efforts to resolve the crisis over Iran's nuclear program stalled yesterday when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced he was no longer open to nuclear talks and said the country would begin enriching its own uranium, bringing its stockpile closer to weapons-grade material.

December 3, 2009 - By Anonymous
Watch Joe Cirincione on the Colbert Report

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, s

December 1, 2009 - By Deborah Bain
Ploughshares Fund grantees debate Iranian enrichment plant

Iran angrily refused Sunday to comply with a demand by the United Nations nuclear agency to cease work on a once-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant, and escalated the confrontation by declaring it would construct 10 more such plants. International Atomic Energy Agency voted last week to r

November 30, 2009 - By Anonymous
South Korean President Proposes Nuclear Summit With Kim Jong Il

South Korea's president last week offered to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at "any time and anywhere" in order to break the impasse over the North's nuclear program.

November 30, 2009 - By Anonymous
Leon Sigal: New developments with North Korea

Leon Sigal, of Ploughshares-funded Social Science Research Council, speaks with Worldfocus' Dalijt Dhaliwal about the new envoy to North Korea, the DPRK'

November 20, 2009 - By Anonymous
IAEA questions Iran after finding undeclared heavy water

After its three-day inspection of the underground site, the International Atomic Energy Agency has pressed Iran to declare in writing that it has no other hidden nuclear facilities, according to a copy of the

November 18, 2009 - By Anonymous
Negotiating with North Korea

November 18, 2009 - By Paul Carroll
Kenneth Luongo: Confronting twenty-first-century nuclear security realities

To help President Obama meet nuclear disarmament goals, existing arms control treaties and international agreements must be supplemented with new policies and enhanced flexibility because the new policy agenda for addressing twenty-first century nuclear security realities will be difficult to sel

November 18, 2009 - By Anonymous