Joseph Cirincione is the president of the Ploughshares Fund. He served previously as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. The New York Review of Books praised his new book, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, saying it “ought be read by everyone as a matter of life and death.” Mr. Cirincione worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a professional staff member of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus. He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
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