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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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.
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The president may have made a fatal error in putting nuclear weapons at the heart of improved US-India relations. Lawmakers want the latter, but not at the price of the former. Worse, Indian officials have made clear that India alone will decide which future reactors will be kept in the military category and exempt from any safeguards.
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The real danger is cherry-picking the data to support a preconceived idea and then connecting the dots to form a faulty picture. This is what happened in Iraq.
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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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We exaggerated the threat. We worst-cased it and then acted as if that worst case was the most likely case.
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I believe a military strike would consolidate the hold of the Islamic government, not loosen it.
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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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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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The country is five to 10 years away from the ability to enrich uranium for fuel or bombs.