A newly released statement by former top Pakistani nuclear scientist and proliferator Abdul Qadeer Khan indicates that China in 1982 supplied his nation with a basic nuclear-weapon design and enough weapon-grade uranium to power two nuclear bombs, the
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a Ploughshares Fund grantee, announced the appointment of NIAC advisory board member Ambassador John Limbert as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S.
Iran’s rejection of international community’s proposal to fuel the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) indicates that the Supreme Leader feels no urgency to rebuild confidence with the international community, writes Deepti Choubey of the
Every day, the whirling centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment plant produce about 2.75 kilograms of the stuff, according to International Atomic Energy Agency data.
North Korea's military provocations this year angered its ally China, but Beijing remains reluctant to tighten the screws on Pyongyang, the Ploughshares Fund grantee International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a
The U.S. decision to cut $85 million in democracy funds for Iran has led to mixed reactions among Iranian-Americans, Iran analysts, rights activists and others.
The only benefit Iranian hardliners seek to gain in refusing to comply with the recent nuclear deal is to appear as the true defenders of the Iranian revolution, said Ploughshares Fund President Joseph Ciricione during an interview with PRI’s “The World” on Iran. Ciricione says the regime is on the rocks and the internal debate around the nuclear issue is the cause for Iranian mixed signals. Listen the full interview here.
The amount of uranium needed at Qum, some 7 to 16 percent of Isfahan's stockpile, would be too great a diversion to go unnoticed, says Andreas Persbo, an arms-control analyst at VERTIC, a Ploughshares Fund gr
