The Iran Uprising is a game changer. The regime has been delegitimized for large portions of the Iranian population. If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prevails--and that is by no means certain--he will be greatly weakened, handcuffed in his ability to play the nuclear card as a nationalist rallying cry. Pressed at home,...

Like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, North Korea is a little unbalanced and relentless. Obama's strategy of ignoring the country has failed.

The first thing to know about the apparently successful nuclear test is this: Don't Panic. Though the country seems to have corrected the mistakes that led to the...

This article was co-authored by Alexandra Bell, Research Associate at Ploughshares Fund.

The giant hydrogen bomb detonated on the ABC hit show, Lost, in its season finale this week really existed. It really was called "Jughead." Constructed in 1954, it was never actually exploded, leaving space for Lost's writers...

This article was co-authored with Ploughshares Fund research assistant Benjamin Loehrke.

This week, UK Foreign Minister David Miliband told a small gathering at the New America Foundation that Britain was serious about nuclear disarmament. So are a lot of people. Arms control is back, big time.

It is...

Actress Lisa Kudrow has posted a special plea for this Mother's Day, May 10. "Did you know that Mother's Day in America originated as a day to celebrate peace?" she asks in the video message, "The holiday traces its roots to a mother's plea for peace after the Civil...

They thought they were selling plutonium. What they actually had might be even scarier. A foiled plot in Ukraine shows the gaping holes in efforts to contain deadly radioactive materials that could be used in dirty bombs. It is time to crack down on this trade. Obama needs to push...

The US and Russian presidents released in London today a remarkable statement that breaks from the stale mumbo jumbo of the past and details an ambitious work plan for a new relationship between the two countries--starting with the goal of a nuclear-free world.

Compare this statement to the...

Coauthored by Ploughshares Fund Research Assistant Benjamin Loehrke.

Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) put the hammer down on the Missile Defense Agency this week -- at a conference designed to boost the agency's $13 billion-a-year program. Diplomatic but forceful, Levin served notice that the lax policies of...

This article is co-authored by Alexandra Bell, Research Associate, Ploughshares Fund.

A coalition of citizens groups and progressive House Members just saved the American taxpayers a whole lot of money. They eliminated from the stimulus bill $1 billion dollars for nuclear weapons work the Senate had stuffed in.

After...

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...

Co-authored by Alexandra Bell, Research Associate at Ploughshares Fund.

The victors write history. Few would ascribe that right to the outgoing Bush Administration. The "Highlights of Accomplishments and Results of the Administration of George W. Bush" is fifty pages of glossy photos and false claims of the last eight...

Sound strategy is built on accurate threat assessment. The two intelligence directors appointed today will help restore this vital foundation undermined by the distortions and manipulations of the past eight years.

President-elect Barack Obama on Friday appointed two seasoned professionals to the top intelligence posts. Dennis Blair...

President-Elect Barack Obama can get over $28 billion for new programs by cutting Cold War nuclear weapons. That could help save the auto industry, or finance anti-terrorism efforts, or rebuild the Army and Marine Corps crippled by the Iraq War.

The new president needs money. "To make the investments...

This article was co-authored by Joe Cirincione and Victoria Samson, senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information.

A new Pentagon study says we need to take the current missile defense program back to the garage for some serious repairs. The report should help the next president redirect...

This article was co-authored by Joe Cirincione and Jon Wolfsthal

It is not just U.S. economic policy that is in crisis. News from Iran and North Korea this week highlights the collapse of US efforts to stem the spread of nuclear weapons. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said earlier...

Gov. Palin's ABC interview raised concerns over her experience and knowledge.

It is her policy that should worry us most. The combination of McCain's recklessness, Palin's proclivities and neoconservative belligerence could plunge a McCain presidency into an early confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia.

Palin generated alarmed headlines when she casually...

If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11.

On September 10, 2001, Senator Biden, then (as now) chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, prophetically warned of the new...

President Bush's new deal with Poland gives that country millions in aid, stokes Russia's paranoia and decreases America's security. It is bad policy.

President Bush has promised Poland tens of millions of dollars in defense assistance to buy its agreement to deploy 10 anti-missile interceptors he says are necessary to...

One week after military maneuvers raised fears of war and the price of oil, a senior US official will meet with the Iranian nuclear negotiator. A deal may be in the works.

Twenty-two years ago, former National Security Advisor Robert "Bud" McFarlane carried a cake, a bible and...

Each side in the Persian Gulf sees its moves as purely defensive. It is the other guy who's the belligerent. The latest Iranian tests continue a dangerous action-reaction cycle that could lead to war.

It is no coincidence that Iran fired its salvo of 9 ballistic missiles on July 9...