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February 15, 2024

After More Than $1 Billion in Funding, MacArthur’s Big Bets Are Winding Down. What Happens Now?

Executive Director John Tierney spoke with Inside Philanthropy about how the closure of MacArthur’s Nuclear Security program will impact its grantees. The article is paywalled.

When it comes to longer-term change, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Tierney believes the field has made significant inroads and that any analysis of the field should take this incremental progress into account. “Since the Reagan administration,” he said, “there have been a number of arms control agreements and other treaties that have reduced the number of nuclear weapons from over 70,000 to less than 15,000.” Read more

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