Its edgier approach is getting noticed in official Washington, especially as the town debates the implications of the New START nuclear-arms-reduction treaty with Russia. The Pentagon recently challenged some of the statistics being disseminated by Ploughshares’ efforts as “curious arithmetic.” The group defends its numbers and relishes the controversy, if for no other reason than it gets people focused on its issue.
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The Weekly Standard http://assets.weeklystandard.com.s3.amazonaws.com/tws15/images/logo-large.pngThe Weekly Standard 2011 Washington, DC Politics 2011-12-13 http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-anti-arms-lobby/article/613188 2011-12-13T12:48 2011-12-13T11:59 The Anti-Arms Lobby Robert Zarate recently noted that nuclear disarmament folks are exagerating defense spending numbers in order to appeal to fiscal hawks. Today, Eli Lake writes about the main group behind this effort, the Ploughshare Fund: In the old days advocacy groups engaged in the rough and tumble of political debates while the foundations that bankrolled them kept a lower profile. In the arms-control world, that is changing. A foundation called the Ploughshares Fund is taking a more active role, coordinating efforts it funds to influence the current dialogue about the size and costs of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Arms, Daniel Halper http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/280x280-926d9c99dcbf30fd4be8d16a66563945.jpg