Joseph Cirincione

Joseph Cirincione (/ˌsɪrɪnsiˈoʊni/,[1] SIR-in-see-OWN-ee, born 13 November 1949) is the president of the Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution.[2][3]

Joseph Cirincione
Born (1949-11-13) November 13, 1949
OccupationPresident, Ploughshares Fund

Career

Cirincione was appointed to the presidency of the Ploughshares Fund by the Ploughshares board of directors on 5 March 2008.

He is the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2007) and Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats[4] (Carnegie Endowment, second edition 2006) and the co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security [5] (Carnegie Endowment, 2005).

Cirincione has advocated for negotiations to end the diplomatic stalemate regarding the nuclear program of Iran.[6][7][8] His many public espousals of nonviolent conflict resolution include an appearance on The Colbert Report.[9]

Cirincione previously served as vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. For eight years, he was the director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he chaired and organized five of the annual Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conferences.[10] The 2005 conference included Cirincione's 15-minute slide and film presentation, "A Brief History of the Atomic Age."[11]

He worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives, beginning in 1985 as a professional staff member of the Committee on Armed Services.[12] He also served as a staff member of the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus.

gollark: Randomized controlled trials?
gollark: I didn't, no.
gollark: It wasn't that. It was some weird historical factors, and it being easy to write compilers for, and being tied to Unix.
gollark: Idea: go to the fairly recent past, bring a random laptop or something, wow people with your more powerful computer.
gollark: The programmers of the past were better than you, and made their programming languages from scratch on less power than random microcontrollers have.

References
  1. Self-introduction on YouTube
  2. "Joseph Cirincione to Lead Expansion of Ploughshares Fund". Ploughshares Fund. February 20, 2008. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013.
  3. Clemons, Steve (February 19, 2008). "Center for American Progress Nuke Expert Becomes Foundation President". Washington Note.
  4. Cirincione, Joseph; Wolfsthal, Jon; Rajkumar, Miriam (July 10, 2005). "Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats" (2nd ed.). Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  5. Perkovich, George; Tuchman Mathews, Jessica; Cirincione, Joseph; Gottemoeller, Rose; Wolfsthal, Jon B. (March 2005). "Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Archived from the original on 2006-12-28.
  6. Cirincione, Joseph (November 2006). "The Clock's Ticking: Stop Iran Before It Is Too Late". Arms Control Today. Arms Control Association.
  7. Gwertzman, Bernard (January 6, 2006). "Q&A: Iran's Nuclear Issues". New York Times.
  8. "Video discussion with Cirincione and Jacqueline Shire". Bloggingheads.tv. April 19, 2007.
  9. "Better Know a Lobby - Ploughshares Fund". The Colbert Report. November 30, 2009.
  10. "2005 Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Archived from the original on 2006-03-29.
  11. Cirncione, Joseph (2005). "A Brief History of the Atomic Age". Dot-Org Digital Media Services.
  12. "Joseph Cirincione". Q&A. C-SPAN. May 27, 2007.
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