Our Objectives
- Encourage vocal and active Canadian support for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
- Contribute, through work with likeminded organizations, in Canada and abroad, to international policies that support a more efficient and effective nuclear non-proliferation regime.
NATO Nuclear Policy
- Encourage vocal and active Canadian support for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
- Contribute, through work with likeminded organizations, in Canada and abroad, to international policies that support a more efficient and effective nuclear non-proliferation regime.
- 25 of the 28 member states of NATO, including Canada, are defined as being non-nuclear-weapon states in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- NATO regards nuclear deterrence as a key part of its military doctrine
This contradiction has long undermined attempts by the international community to take serious steps towards nuclear disarmament.
Project Ploughshares supports the call for a clear reversal of NATO's policy of continuing commitment to nuclear weapons and nuclear-use strategies.
Ballistic Missile Defence
Project Ploughshares responded to the ballistic missile defence issue when it re-emerged in the early 1990s, providing information and analysis, and in particular proposing alternatives for dealing with the threats that the ballistic missile system is intended to address.
Ploughshares continues to monitor global ballistic missile issues as they arise.
Recent Posts on Nuclear Weapons
Canada must resist U.S. efforts to further undermine the Iran nuclear deal
May 5, 2020The Iran nuclear deal has long been derided by U.S. President Donald Trump, whose actions have already jeopardized some of the concrete security dividends of the hard-won agreement. But his latest move constitutes a clear affront to international law that must be rejected, especially by countries like Canada that express strong support for a rules-based multilateral order. A flexible view ...
The Right to Peace: Nuclear Disarmament
September 17, 2018The theme for the 2018 International Day of Peace (Friday, Sept. 21) is The Right to Peace - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on Dec. 10, 1948, to recognize "the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human ...
Re-affirming City of Toronto as a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone
April 19, 2018The following comments refer to the April 16, 2018 Board of Health meeting on item 2018.HL26.1: Re-affirming City of Toronto as a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone. As Executive Director of Project Ploughshares, a Canadian group that has conducted research on nuclear disarmament for more than four decades, I add my full and unequivocal support to item 2018.HL26.1, now under consideration by ...