Meet Joe Cirincione

February 22, 2008 -- Ploughshares Fund today named Joseph Cirincione, a highly-regarded policy expert and Capitol Hill veteran, as its new president. “At a moment of unprecedented opportunity to foster fundamental changes in the direction of U.S. nuclear weapons policy,” said board chairman Roger Hale, “we are fortunate and delighted to welcome someone of Joe’s stature and intellect into the leadership of this organization.”

Cirincione is the author of the 2007 critically- acclaimed book, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. He served as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress, and previously for eight years as director of the nonproliferation program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He worked for over nine years on the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee and the Government Operations Committee. Cirincione is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service.

In recent months, Cirincione has appeared in the media and has written extensively about a “new moment” for nuclear disarmament;