
Ploughshares
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Building a future beyond nuclear fear. We aim to reduce and eventually eliminate #nuclearweapons & promote stability where they exist.
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http://ploughshares.org 17-08-2009 19:03:50
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"We deserve better." From Hans Kristensen (also on Bluesky), Matt Korda, and Jon Wolfsthal today in Washington Post Opinions: Why we should worry about nuclear weapons again 🔗below


The last nuclear age was defined by two superpowers — the United States and the Soviet Union. "Today’s global nuclear landscape is far more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious." Read more from Jon B. Wolfsthal, Hans Kristensen (also on Bluesky) and Matt Korda of Federation of American Scientists🔬:


👋 Meet one of Ploughshares' Nuclear Futures Fellows! Tom Brookes is a Programme Advisor on Nuclear Weapons The Elders. His capstone is a network of women leaders interested in nuclear threat reduction & supports intergenerational leadership in the field. #FuturesFellowFeatures


Nuclear Future Fellow Diya Ashtakala & her colleague Joseph Rogers address the need for irreversible changes in nuclear disarmament to advance a world without nuclear weapons. Read more in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ⬇️ thebulletin.org/2025/06/only-i…

.Daryl G Kimball of grantee @armscontrolnow and Jay Coghlan of grantee Nuclear Watch New Mexico were both quoted in a The New York Times piece this week on proposed increased weapons spending. More nuclear weapons, Coghlan said, “won’t give us more security.” ❌ nytimes.com/2025/06/03/sci…


There are multiple global risks competing for attention and action. Yet none threaten the “sudden and complete destruction of human civilization the way nuclear weapons do.” Every citizen should read this OpEd. Then support Ploughshares today. washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…


Testimony from Ploughshares board member, Amy McGrath, citing the first The Washington Post op-ed from Federation of American Scientists🔬's "The Next Nuclear Age" series📰

Amy McGrath Ploughshares Thanks for sharing -- our team's work is not possible without our friends at Ploughshares


One week from today 🗓️ grantees Union of Concerned Scientists, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, and Tri-Valley CAREs are hosting a webinar on how to submit a comment to ensure the NNSA fully considers the risks that come with expanded plutonium pit production. Register ⬇️ secure.ucs.org/a/2025-6-16-pe…