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Caution on Military Involvement in Iran or Syria
  On the radar: Not blundering into war; Limited capability, unbelievable expense; B61 boondoggle; Positioning on global strike; and the Ideology under the EMP tinfoil hat.   Read more »
EARLY WARNING for May 24, 2013
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The very dangerous nuclear deal with India
Joe Cirincione writes, "The U.S.-India pact has been hailed as a triumph. It was just the opposite. It is hard to overstate what a mistake this was. India has now been granted all the privileges of a recognized nuclear-weapons state but with none of the responsibilities. The other two nuclear-armed nations outside the treaty, Pakistan and Israel, are sure to demand equal treatment; other nations, like Japan, may reconsider their nuclear options. Read more »
Posted on December 30, 2008
South Asia, Middle East & Persian Gulf, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Nuclear Policy, United States
John Holdren
Obama names Holdren chief science advisor
President-elect Barack Obama named Harvard physicist John Holdren, a former Ploughshares Fund grantee, to the position of director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, a move that bodes well for sound policymaking on nuclear weapons and climate change.  "A physicist renowned for his work on climate and energy, Holdren...has been one of the most passionate and persistent voices of our time about the growing threat of climate change," Obama said in a Read more »
Posted by admin on December 29, 2008
Climate change, Proliferation, United States
Nation: Butter over guns
Katrina Vanden Heuvel's latest blog for the Nation featured Joe Cirincione. She quoted Joe's Boston Globe op-ed on cutting the nuclear budget. Read the article here. Read more »
Posted by Sarah Brown on December 17, 2008
Nuclear Weapons, Defense Budget, Other, United States
Boston, MA
Boston area visit
Joe Cirincione met with donors in the Boston area. Read more »
Posted by Sarah Brown on December 17, 2008
Edvard Much, "The Scream"
The fear factor and nuclear terrorism
Reflecting on last week's alarming report from the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, Alexander Zaitchik writes in Alternet that "when it comes to public opinion, the nuclear question is trickier than most. Read more »
Posted by Sarah Brown on December 15, 2008
Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Terrorism, United States
PSI community-wide meeting
The community-wide meeting of Peace and Security Initiative, a Ploughshares Fund initiative, met in Washington, D.C. Joe Cirincione attended and contributed to the discussion.    Read more »
Posted by Sarah Brown on December 11, 2008
Bush doctrine complete failure
Donna Cassata's Associated Press article titled, "Bush legacy talk starts with military doctrine" quoted Joe Cirincione, who called the Bush Doctrine a complete failure, as all of the members of the Axis of Evil are more dangerous today than they were in 2000.   Read more »
Posted by Sarah Brown on December 9, 2008
Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Nuclear Policy, United States
Representative Barney Frank (D-MA)
"Cut nuclear weapons budget," agrees Rep. Frank
"Madam Speaker," wrote Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) in a statement inserted into the Congressional Record, "in a thoughtful and well documented article in the Boston Globe for December 3, Joseph Cirincione makes a very persuasive case for putting significant redu Read more »
Posted on December 9, 2008
Nuclear Weapons, Defense Budget, U.S. Nuclear Policy, Other, United States
Global Zero logo
World leaders call for global zero: an end to all nuclear weapons
President Jimmy Carter, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Bishop Desmond Tutu this week launched a campaign calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons.  The campaign, Global Zero, received early support from Ploughshares Fund.  Meeting today in Paris, 100 past and current world leaders signed a declaration imploring the U.S. Read more »
Posted on December 9, 2008
Europe, South Asia, Middle East & Persian Gulf, Nuclear States, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S. Nuclear Policy, Iran, United States
Multiple choice check boxes
Worldwide public opinion favors eliminating nuclear weapons
A poll of 21 nations from around the world finds that people in every country favor an international agreement for eliminating all nuclear weapons.  19,142 respondents were asked to consider an agreement that specified that "all countries with nuclear weapons would be required to eliminate them according to a timetable" while "all other countries would be required not to develop them." Respondents were also told that all countries, including their own, "would be monitored to make sure they are following the agreement." In 20 of the 21 countries large major Read more »
Posted on December 8, 2008
Nuclear Weapons