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ABSTRACT
Success in achieving the goals of reducing and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons will rely on several interrelated factors: A revitalized nuclear policy field that recognizes the power that comes from greater diversity in all its forms, new partners willing to share their knowledge and expertise, and bold new ideas – some of which, by design, will appear ridiculous at first.
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The author is the President of the Ploughshares Fund, which provides financial support to the Bulletin.
Notes
1. This is drawn from a quote attributed (Wack Citation1985) to Peter Drucker: “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”
2. “Three Horizons” is a futures method. See Curry and Hodgson for the evolution of the method (Citation2008).
3. Mareena Robinson-Snowden addresses challenges of being associated with different “camps” in the field at around the 29-minute mark in Ploughshares’ Responsible Disruption panel (Ploughshares Fund Citation2020).
4. This is drawn from concepts covered in School of International Futures’ N Square Strategic Foresight Programme, July-September 2020.
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Emma Belcher
Emma Belcher is president of the Ploughshares Fund. Previously, she spent nearly a decade at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she led the foundation’s Nuclear Challenges grantmaking program. She has served as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and as an advisor in Australia’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on national security and international affairs.