Pam Hamamoto, former ambassador to the UN in Geneva under President Barack Obama, joins Press the Button for an exclusive interview on her experiences leading the US’s largest overseas multilateral diplomatic post, and her current leadership of the Women's Initiative $1 Million Campaign at Ploughshares Fund. Hamamoto co-founded International Gender Champions, a global network of leaders committed to promoting gender equality through specific actions and policy changes. Early Warning features Tom Collina and Akshai Vikram comparing the Democratic presidential candidates' positions on nuclear policy with that of the Trump administration's approach, the IAEA's latest report on Iran's uranium enrichment, and what to do about Coronavirus.

Jessica Mathews, former President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins co-host Joe Cirincione for a wide-ranging conversation on how bipartisan consensus enabled an out-of-control US military spending spree that continues to this day. Early Warning features Ploughshares Fund Board Member Philip Taubman discussing the Open Skies Treaty and the state of arms control in the face of renewed nuclear modernization programs.

Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation, joins co-host Joe Cirincione for a sobering assessment of the current moment in our nuclear history, and how to prevent the worst from happening during the Trump administration and beyond. Early Warning features our Roger L. Hale fellow Akshai Vikram and Catherine Killough of Women Cross DMZ assessing nuclear policy in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, the impact of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and recent parliamentary elections in Iran.

Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation, joins co-host Joe Cirincione for a sobering assessment of the current moment in our nuclear history, and how to prevent the worst from happening during the Trump administration and beyond. Early Warning features our Roger L. Hale fellow Akshai Vikram and Catherine Killough of Women Cross DMZ assessing nuclear policy in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, the impact of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and recent parliamentary elections in Iran.

The Trump administration's budget request for 2021 is out, and it calls for an eye-popping $75 billion in nuclear weapons spending. William Hartung of the Center for International Policy returns to Press the Button to discuss the exploding nuclear budget: why it's happening, what it means for spending on other things, and why it's so dangerous. Early Warning features our policy director Tom Collina and Erica Fein of Win Without War discussing the winners and losers of the budget request, and recent legislation introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar that aims to outline a progressive foreign policy vision for the United States.

Read more about the exploding military budget: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pentagon-military-spending/

The Trump administration's budget request for 2021 is out, and it calls for an eye-popping $75 billion in nuclear weapons spending. William Hartung of the Center for International Policy returns to Press the Button to discuss the exploding nuclear budget: why it's happening, what it means for spending on other things, and why it's so dangerous. Early Warning features our policy director Tom Collina and Erica Fein of Win Without War discussing the winners and losers of the budget request, and recent legislation introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar that aims to outline a progressive foreign policy vision for the United States.

Read more about the exploding military budget: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pentagon-military-spending/

What does a feminist foreign policy look like, and what would it mean for nuclear policy? Joe Cirincione and Michelle Dover sit down for an in-depth interview with Lyric Thompson, the director of policy and advocacy at the International Center for Research on Women, to answer these questions. Thompson’s organization is in the middle of a big project: providing the intellectual framework for a feminist foreign policy. Early Warning features our policy director Tom Collina and Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists discussing the impending collapse of New START, the exploding nuclear weapons budget, the deployment of new weapons on US submarines, and the risks of keeping American nuclear weapons in Europe.