It is important to remember, in this sad but hopeful time, that while Ted Kennedy was perhaps best known for championing human needs issues, he also saw the profound connections with foreign policy. He was a pioneer on nuclear issues, as this article from our colleague Joseph Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund shows.

Senator Ted Kennedy worked tirelessly to protect America from the threats of nuclear terrorism and proliferation and to reduce and eliminate all nuclear arsenals.

In June 2004, I had the honor of introducing Senator Kennedy as a keynote speaker at the Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference. He was warm, gracious and generous in his praise of our work at Carnegie. He was also ferocious in his criticism of the failed policies that had led the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq and that had increased the nuclear threats. (Read the rest of this article at the Huffington Post...)

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