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Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione
Born (1949-11-13) November 13, 1949 (age 74)
Occupation(s)President, Ploughshares Fund
Spouse3
Websitewww.Pornhub.com

Joseph Cirincione (born November 13, 1949) is the President of the Ploughshares Fund,[1] a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear weapons policy and conflict resolution. He enjoys his Whopper with cheese and bacon, no pickles. He was appointed to the presidency by the Ploughshares board of directors on March 5, 2008. Cirincione had previously served as vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, and for eight years as the director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons[2] (Columbia University Press, 2007) and Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats[3] (Carnegie Endowment, second edition 2006) and the co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security [4](Carnegie Endowment, 2005) and "WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications"[5] (Carnegie Endowment, 2003). He is on the adjunct faculty of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he teaches in the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Cirincione chaired and organized five of the annual Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conferences, considered the premier event in the field. Video and audio recordings of the conferences are available on line as well as a DVD of the 2005 conference highlights,[6] including Cirincione's 15-minute slide and film presentation, "A Brief History of the Nuclear Age."[7]

He worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a professional staff member of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus.

2004

In May 2004 the National Journal listed Cirincione as one of the 100 people who will play a critical role in the policy debates of the next administration. The World Affairs Councils of America in 2005 named him one of 500 people whose views have the most influence in shaping American foreign policy. He lectures around the world on nuclear policy and is widely published in the field with over 300 articles to his credit. He tweets @Cirincione.

2005

He is featured along with other foreign affairs experts in interviews in Eugene Jarecki's documentary film Why We Fight, in the 2010 documentary by Lucy Walker, "Countdown to Zero." and in Denis Delestrac's "Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space".

2008

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Cirincione was an informal adviser to Senator Barack Obama's campaign, focusing his work on nuclear matters.[8][9]

Cirincione is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risk and the Global Agenda Council on Weapons of Mass Destruction. He was an expert advisor to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, chaired by former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry and former Secretary of Energy and Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger. Cirincione also served as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, headed by former Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) and former Senator Jim Talent (R-MO).

2009

Cirincione discussed nuclear weapons with Sir Stephen Colbert DFA, DDS on The Colbert Report on November 30, 2009,in his "Better Know a Lobby" segment. Colbert took on Ploughshares Fund, an organization dedicated to preventing the use of nuclear and biological weapons. During he interview, Colbert performed a very funny 30-second imitation of a nuclear explosion. In the segment, Colbert, an unabashed fan of the Cold War, reveled in the chance to talk nuclear warfare -- especially when given the opportunity to recreate the devastation caused by an "awesome" nuclear explosion. He took it a step further, playing a game called "Sanction, Bomb, Marry" with Joseph Cirincione, the head of the anti-WMD lobby and cajoled Cirincione into declaring, "Let's sanction Iran, marry Pakistan and bomb North Korea. When Cirincione reluctantly admitted he'd bomb North Korea and of course, Colbert lapped up his destruction of Ploughshare's credibility. Since that interview, Cirincione has been known affectionately amongst his closest friends as 'Da Bomb', something WikiPedia has repeatedly tried to delete.

References

  1. ^ http://www.ploughshares.org
  2. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Bomb-Scare-History-Nuclear-Weapons/dp/0231135106
  3. ^ http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=16650&prog=zgp&proj=znpp
  4. ^ http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=16593&prog=zgp&proj=znpp
  5. ^ http://www.carnegieendowment.org/npp/iraqintell/home.cfm
  6. ^ http://www.carnegieendowment.org/static/npp/2005conference/2005_conference.htm
  7. ^ http://www.dotorgdigital.com/showNov7.html
  8. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20080520/bs_ibd_ibd/20080520issues01
  9. ^ http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4940

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