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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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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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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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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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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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 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 exaggerated the threat. We worst-cased it and then acted as if that worst case was the most likely case.
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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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India got everything and they gave nothing. The president has sold out U.S. national security interests for a handful of mangoes.
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The factual debate during the next six months will revolve around the threat assessment.
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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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Don't panic. The Iranian program is still at the very early stages.