Nuclear Field Is Severely Underfunded

Total non-governmental spending on nuclear risk reduction is only around $30 million per year—including all organizations like the Plowshares Fund—and the field is contracting because the largest funder, the MacArthur Foundation, exited in 2020 after concluding it couldn't see a line of sight to its big-bet goal, leaving dedicated organizations starved for cash on a problem of existential scale.