Ploughshares Toasts “A Bold Future” at Annual Benefit Gala

On June 24, San Francisco’s renowned Commonwealth Club was the site of this year’s fundraising gala to benefit Ploughshares, the international nuclear weapons reduction organization. This year’s event theme, “A Bold Future,” focused on the new wave of reporting on issues of nuclear proliferation, and honored leaders of the movement to diminish the threat posed by nuclear weapons. 

Ploughshares president Dr. Emma Belcher led off the evening with an in-depth conversation with Annie Jacobsen, author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The fascinating conversation continued with appearances by Barbara Slavin, journalist and Distinguished Fellow at The Stimson Center, talking with Outgoing Ploughshares board chair Terry Gamble Boyer about the current Middle East crisis. 

A number of distinguished guests turned out to support Ploughshares’ vital mission, including 

Pia Chamberlain, daughter of late Nobel Peace Prize winner Owen Chamberlain, Patricia Ellsberg, wife of Pentagon Papers source Dan Ellsberg, and Charles Oppenheimer, grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The evening closed with a preview of the new film First We Bombed New Mexico and a performance by Paul Pino. 

Since its founding in 1981, Ploughshares has supported advocates and organizations around the world working to reduce our collective nuclear arsenal. 

Annie Jacobsen, Terry Gamble Boyer, Barbara Slavin, William Hartung, Emma Belcher, Paul Pino and Lois Lipman (Photo – Jessica Monroy for Drew Altizer Photography)
Annie Jacobsen and Emma Belcher (Photo – Jessica Monroy for Drew Altizer Photography)

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