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Joseph Cirincione
Center for American Progress
Filmed in December 2006.
What impact would a nuclear attack have on the United States? [2:51]
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? [1:57]
What other times have countries come close to using nuclear weapons? [3:24]
Why have we been able to avoid nuclear war since World War II? [1:54]
What are the different types of nuclear weapons and how do they work? [3:20]
What types of nuclear weapons do different countries have? [0:40]
What stops the spread of nuclear weapons? [2:33]
What are the major threats we face from nuclear weapons today? [3:07]
Why would countries like North Korea and Iran want nuclear weapons? [1:56]
What are the issues around North Korea’s nuclear weapons program? [1:29]
What are the consequences in Asia of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program? [2:01]
How difficult would it be for a terrorist to obtain a nuclear weapon? [1:59]
What is the likelihood of a terrorist nuclear attack? [1:30]
How do you think our country should deal with nuclear weapons in the future? [2:10]
Why are some countries allowed to have nuclear weapons? [2:03]
Joseph Cirincione is president of the Ploughshares Fund. Mr. Cirincione is author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2007) and co-author of Contain and Engage: A New Strategy for Resolving the Iran Nuclear Crisis (Center for American Progress, 2007). Other books include two editions of Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats, (2005 and 2002), and previous reports include Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (March 2005) with George Perkovich, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Rose Gottemoeller and Jon Wolfsthal and WMD in Iraq (January 2004) with Jessica Tuchman Mathews, George Perkovich, and Alexis Orton. He is author of over 200 articles on defense issues, producer of two DVDs on proliferation, former publisher of Proliferation New the comprehensive proliferation website, and is a frequent commentator in the media. In the past two years he has delivered over 150 speeches around the world. Prior to joining the Ploughshares Fund, Mr. Cirincione served as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress for two years, and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. 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. He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
