Joseph Cirincione (born November 13, 1949) is the President of the Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear weapons policy and conflict resolution. He was appointed to the presidency by the Ploughshares board of directors on March 5, 2008. He is the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2007) and Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats (Carnegie Endowment, second edition 2006) and the co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (Carnegie Endowment, 2005).
Cirincione has advocated for negotiations to end the diplomatic stalemate regarding the nuclear program of Iran. His many public espousals of nonviolent conflict resolution include an appearance on The Colbert Report.
Cirincione previously served as vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. For eight years he was the director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he chaired and organized five of the annual Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conferences. The 2005 conference included Cirincione's 15-minute slide and film presentation, "A Brief History of the Nuclear Age."
"So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States."
"They seem to be in a nuclear game of chicken and both cars are right smack in the middle of the road and heading towards each other in full speed. We don't know what is going to happen, we have to wait for somebody to swerve."
"The South Korean disclosure will deflect attention from North Korea and Iran where it belongs,"
"It is no surprise nations like South Korea are beginning to hedge their bets in light of the North Korean nuclear weapons advances."
"telling Saddam that they were further along than they actually were."
"We don't know what to make of these reports coming out from the White House yesterday,"
"We found nothing. There are no large stockpiles of weapons. There hasn't actually been a find of a single weapon, a single weapons agent, nothing like the programs that the administration believe existed."
"We exaggerated the threat. We worst-cased it and then acted as if that worst case was the most likely case."
"We looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we've come to the conclusion that it is broken, ... American Morning."
"It is time for Israel to take it's nuclear weapons out of the basement and put them on the table."
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'When I was on the Armed Services Committee staff in the '80s and '90s, I heard about the sponge,' Joseph Cirincione, a former congressional staffer who worked on military reform for almost a decade, told WIRED.
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Columnist Joseph Cirincione of The Daily Beast expanded upon the dangers in a sobering opinion column on Saturday. Zaporizhzhia, Cirincione wrote, "is a ticking nuclear time bomb ... Consequently, Cirincione explained, "There is no winning hand here.
On Monday, for example, nuclear expert Joseph Cirincione tweeted that he got "bumped" from a scheduled interview with Sky News to discuss Putin's nuclear threats because the network instead decided to ...
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In an op-ed for The Daily Beast this Monday, Joseph Cirincione writes that Elon is becoming a liability for the biggest company he owns, Tesla, after the company's stock price went down 64 percent from its peak value during the year.
It’s not even likely,” said Joseph Cirincione, a nuclear non-proliferation expert and former president of the Plowshares Fund, said on CNN’s “Newsroom” on Tuesday.
"We are closer than we have been since the deal was all but done last May, before the talks suspended for the Iranian elections," said Joseph Cirincione, a nuclear policy expert who consulted closely ...
