Joe on NPR: Doing our part to stop proliferation and nuclear terrorism

Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione tells NPR's Michele Keleman that the recent moves by the Obama Administration to reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal and are key to preventing nuclear terrorism and to the success of this week's Nuclear Security Summit. "In order to convince other countries that they have to undertake new obligations to stop proliferation, to stop nuclear terrorism, you've go to show them that you are also undertaking your own obligations," he says.  "It won't work if they think this is part of a double standard, that we get to keep our nuclear weapons forever, make new improved weapons, but we're asking them never toacquire and to stop other people from acquiring them.  It just won't work.  Historically it hasn't worked that way." 

Listen to the interview here: