Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincioneis 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 Weaponsand Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threatsand the co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security ...
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You no longer heard comments about tyrants and pygmies. It may seem to be a small matter, but it's very important diplomatically.
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As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.
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I think the Chapter 7 route is dead on arrival. The US can keep talking about it, but our own policies have doomed it.
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It is no surprise nations like South Korea are beginning to hedge their bets in light of the North Korean nuclear weapons advances.
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We looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we've come to the conclusion that it is broken, ... American Morning.
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The factual debate during the next six months will revolve around the threat assessment.
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The country is five to 10 years away from the ability to enrich uranium for fuel or bombs.
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The Europeans are worried that the U.S. might actually decouple its strategic interest from the European interest, and that's something they want to avoid at all cost.
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Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth.
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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.
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Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.
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All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.
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I believe a military strike would consolidate the hold of the Islamic government, not loosen it.
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India got everything and they gave nothing. The president has sold out U.S. national security interests for a handful of mangoes.