Joseph Cirincione
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Radio: Bio of Joseph Cirincione
January 29, 2006
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Joseph Cirincione is senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress. Prior to joining the center in May 2006, he served as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. He is the author of "Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons" (Columbia University Press, Spring 2007), "Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats" (Second Edition, 2005), and co-author of "Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security" (March 2005). He teaches at Georgetown University's Graduate School of Foreign Service.
Cirincione 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, and served as staff director of the Military Reform Caucus. He is the author of numerous articles on nuclear weapons issues, the producer of two DVDs on proliferation, and is a frequent commentator on these issues in the media. He has held positions at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the U.S. Information Agency, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is an honors graduate of Boston College and holds a masters of science with highest honors from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.
Bio provided by the Center for American Progress
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