United Nations

  • The UN Makes History on a Nuclear Weapons Ban. Does the US Care?

    The UN Makes History on a Nuclear Weapons Ban. Does the US Care?

    This is the situation confronting proponents of the process begun October 27, when—by a vote of 123 for, 38 against, and 16 abstaining—the First Committee of the UN agreed “to convene in 2017 a United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons.”

    November 3, 2016 - By Joe Cirincione
  • Historic UN Vote on Banning Nuclear Weapons

    Historic UN Vote on Banning Nuclear Weapons

    For the first time in its 71 years, the global body voted to begin negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. All nine nations with nuclear arms (the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea) opposed the resolution. However, with a...

    October 27, 2016 - By Joe Cirincione

  • Getting the Facts on Iran's Nuclear Program

    How old is Iran’s nuclear program, how did it come into being, and who’s in charge? If you want to test your own knowledge of these facts, click here to take the Ploughshares Fund quiz! But if you’d rather peek at a study guide first – we’re here to help.

    February 19, 2014 - By Emily Hauser

  • Banning the Bomb Blast

    Eisenhower wanted it; Kennedy almost got it; Clinton negotiated it; and now Obama can deliver it.  It is the longest-sought, hardest-fought for goal in the history of nuclear arms control: a global ban on nuclear weapons tests.

    August 20, 2013 - By Joe Cirincione