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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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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telling Saddam that they were further along than they actually were.
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Don't panic. The Iranian program is still at the very early stages.
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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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Secretary Rice has implemented a subtle but important shift in U.S. policy. There is no question that the lack of flexibility for the negotiators precluded any possibility of getting a deal for the past three years. Clearly, we are now in a period of give-and-take and genuine negotiations.
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Secretary Rice has implemented a subtle but important shift in U.S. policy, ... There is no question that the lack of flexibility for the negotiators precluded any possibility of getting a deal for the past three years. Clearly, we are now in a period of give-and-take and genuine negotiations.
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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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It's outrageous for American officials to sell out vital national security interests so that some companies can make a buck.
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None of them wants to use the United Nations as a staging ground for another military adventure.
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It is very likely that intelligence officials were pressured by senior administration officials to conform their threat assessments to pre-existing policies.
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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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We don't know what to make of these reports coming out from the White House yesterday,
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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.
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They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.