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Joseph Cirincione

Ploughshares Fund

Joseph Cirincione is a distinguished fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. At the time of filming, he was president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. He has served on the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has taught at the graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Cirincione is the author of Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, and is the author or editor of five other books on nuclear weapons and national security policy.

Cirincione previously served as Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress and Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives on the professional staff of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations.

Cirincione’s videos are used in these Choices Program curriculum units:
The Iranian Revolution
The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy
Russia’s Transformation: Challenges for U.S. Policy
The U.S. Role in a Changing World

VIDEOS
What is the likelihood of a terrorist nuclear attack?
Who are you and what do you do?
Why did other countries develop nuclear weapons?
Are there examples of countries that have given up their nuclear weapons?
Are there examples of “close calls” when nuclear weapons were almost used?
Why are nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation important?
How expensive is the U.S. nuclear weapons program?
Is it really possible to eliminate nuclear weapons?
Why are non-proliferation efforts focused on Iran and North Korea?
How could the international community prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons?
What is the history of Iran’s nuclear program?
Why have we been able to avoid nuclear war since World War II?
What are the different types of nuclear weapons and how do they work?
How difficult would it be for a terrorist to obtain a nuclear weapon?
What is the difference between producing nuclear energy and producing nuclear weapons?
Why should the international community be concerned about a possible Iranian nuclear weapons program?
Why did the United States develop nuclear weapons?
Why did North Korea develop nuclear weapons?
What are the dangers of nuclear weapons?
Why are some countries allowed to have nuclear weapons and others not?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is deterrence?
How do you think our country should deal with nuclear weapons in the future?
Why would countries like North Korea and Iran want nuclear weapons?
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