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  • Brazil prepares uranium enrichment plant

    Brazil confirmed that several of its 10 specially-designed centrifuges to enrich uranium for nuclear power production would be running by the end of March.  Though Brazil signed a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 20

    March 1, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Top U.S. general against reducing nuclear alert posture

    Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton said President Obama’s campaign promise to "work with Russia to take ballistic missiles off hair-trigger alert" mischaracterizes the U.S.

    February 27, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Recommendations for U.S. budget

    The Project on Government Oversight, a Ploughshares-funded organization, has provided five recommendations for Congress and the White House to reduce costs and increase revenue.  These suggestions include reducing wasteful defense spending; increasing resou

    February 27, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Military contractors await budget details

    President Obama announced a 4 percent increase in the basic Pentagon budget, but companies are concerned that the administration's emphasis on simpler arms for immediate use will shift spending away from futuristic weapons.  According to Ploughshares Fund grantee

    February 26, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Follow-up piece in Huffington Post

    Joe and Ploughshares Fund Research Associate Alexandra Bell co-authored a follow-up to Joe's February 5 piece in the Huffington Post.  Due to the efforts of many Ploughshares grantees and p

    February 11, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione

  • Cut the nuclear pork from the stimulus bill

    Some Senators have stealthily stuffed $1 billion for nuclear weapons into the recovery bill. The only thing this will stimulate is an arms race. It must go.

    The Senate bill now contains language authorizing $1 billion "for weapons activities" at the sprawling nuclear weapons complex of laboratories and factories run by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), including new construction, new projects and new computers. The House bill does not contain this funding, for good reason.

    February 8, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione

  • Experts blast Cheney statements on terror threats

    Interviewed in Politico, former Vice President Cheney warned of a “high probability” of an attempted nuclear or biological attack as a consequence of closing Guantanamo and reversing other Bush-era policies.

    February 5, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Don't fund nuclear weapons from economic stimulus

    Representatives from 23 state and national organizations, including Ploughshares Fund's Director of Government Affairs Terri Lodge and 16 other Ploughshares grantees, delivered an emergency letter to the Senate calling for the eliminatio

    February 5, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Huffington Post: Nuclear pork article

    In his latest piece in the Huffington Post, Joe Cirincione covered the billion dollar earmark for the weapons labs in the stimulus package.  Joe contends that this nuclear pork is not only unnecessary, it is dangerous.  Read Jo

    February 5, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • CNN: U.S.-Iranian relations

    CNN International invited Joe Cirincione to discuss the future of U.S.- Iranian relations.

    February 3, 2009 - By Sarah Brown