Joseph Cirincione most recently served as president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. He is the author of the books Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats. He has worked on nuclear weapons policy in Washington for over 35 years and is considered one of the top experts in the field. He served previously as vice president for national security at the Center for American Progress, director for non-proliferation at Carnegie Endowment, and senior associate at Stimson.
He worked for nine years as professional staff on the U.S. House of Representatives Committees on Armed Services and Government Operations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former member of the International Security Advisory Board for Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. He also teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service. Follow Mr. Cirincione on X at @Cirincione.
Explore some of Mr. Cirincione’s recent commentary:
- Russia Mutiny Is More Proof the World Needs to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons — The Daily Beast, 6/25/2023
- Ukraine Must Win and We Must Make Sure of It — Newsweek, 6/6/2023
- In Ukraine, A New Chance to Judge the Patriot Missile — Defense One, 5/5/23
- The War in Ukraine with National Security Analyst Joe Cirincione — The Bill Press Pod, 2/28/23
- Don’t Panic About Putin’s Nuclear Saber-Rattling — Daily Beast, 2/21/23
- Why Hasn’t Putin Used Nuclear Weapons? — Daily Beast, 2/9/23
- A failure to review America’s nuclear posture — Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 10/28/22
- Achieving a Safer U.S. Nuclear Posture — Quincy Institute, 2/7/2022
- How the Nuclear Game Is Rigged to Maintain the Status Quo — Responsible Statecraft, 11/9/2021
- What Baseball Teaches Us About China’s Nuclear Strategy — Responsible Statecraft, 10/20/21
- Nuclear Diplomacy | Inside America with Ghida Fakhry — TRT World, 7/7/21
- How Biden Can Leverage Missile Defense in His Summit with Putin — Defense One, 6/15/21
- Expert stresses that Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapons programme — Phoenix Media Co-Op, 4/9/21
- New Iran Nuclear Talks Allow Biden to Fix Trump’s Mess Before We Head Toward War — NBC News, 4/7/21
- Biden Wants to Be Harry Truman but May End up Like Lyndon Johnson — Responsible Statecraft, 3/30/21
- A Conversation on U.S.-Iran Relations (Podcast) — Conversation Six, 3/1/21
- First Steps Toward Returning to the Iran Nuke Deal — but What’s Next? — Responsible Statecraft, 2/18/21
- A Coup in Myanmar, Arms Control and Biden’s Change in Direction. Exploring the Grimwade Collection — Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, 2/3/21
- How the Mad King Can Burn It All Down — Responsible Statecraft, 1/13/21
- Why the U.S. Wastes Billions on Nuclear Weapons It Doesn’t Need — Responsible Statecraft, 1/6/21
- U.S. or Israeli Attack on Iran Unlikely — but Not Impossible — Responsible Statecraft, 11/17/20
- The National Security Implications of the White House Coronavirus Outbreak — Responsible Statecraft, 10/2/20
- How Joe Biden Can Solve the Iran Crisis — Responsible Statecraft, 9/25/20
- What Kamala Harris Would Mean for a Biden Administration’s Foreign Policy — Responsible Statecraft, 8/13/20
- How to Realize Diversity in the National Security Community — National Interest, 6/16/20
- Why Letting Our Allies Get Nuclear Weapons is a Bad Idea — Responsible Statecraft, 5/20/20
- Restoring Nuclear Diplomacy — The Foreign Service Journal, May 2020
- How Blocking Immigration Hurts U.S. National Security — National Interest, 4/27/30
- Why America Needs to Rethink Its National Security Priorities — National Interest, 4/6/20
- Regardless of the Presidential Campaign’s Outcome, We Need to Keep Warren’s Plan to Rein in the Pentagon Budget, Responsible Statecraft, 3/3/20
- A Pause in the Rush to War — Responsible Statecraft, 1/8/20
- For Once, Trump Should Listen to Putin — Inkstick, 12/10/19
- No President Should Have the Absolute Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons — The Washington Post, 12/1/19
- Trump Is Misleading America Into A New War — Lobe Log, 6/19/19
- The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking. How Can We Turn It Back? — Tennessean, 2/8/19
- North Korea and America’s Second Summit: Here’s What Joe Cirincione and Catherine Killough Think Will Happen — The National Interest, 2/6/19
- The Bill Press Show — Youtube, 2/5/19
- John Bolton Is a Serial Arms Control Killer — The Washington Post, 2/1/19
- Bolton’s Big Iran Con — Defense One, 1/12/19
- John McCain, Nuclear Disarmament, and What Might Have Been — Defense One, 8/29/18
- Dystrumpia: Donald Trump’s Dark Future Now — LobeLog, 7/16/18
- A No-Cost, No-Brainer of a Nuclear Deal — Defense One, 7/10/18