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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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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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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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 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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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 exaggerated the threat. We worst-cased it and then acted as if that worst case was the most likely case.
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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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The factual debate during the next six months will revolve around the threat assessment.
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Don't panic. The Iranian program is still at the very early stages.
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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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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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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.
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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.