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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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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They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.
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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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Don't panic. The Iranian program is still at the very early stages.
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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's outrageous for American officials to sell out vital national security interests so that some companies can make a buck.
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The factual debate during the next six months will revolve around the threat assessment.
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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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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 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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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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telling Saddam that they were further along than they actually were.
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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 no surprise nations like South Korea are beginning to hedge their bets in light of the North Korean nuclear weapons advances.