Joseph Cirincione
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Joseph Cirincione (b. November 13, 1949) is the Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. He served for eight years as the Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 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[1] (Carnegie Edowment, second edtion 2006) and the co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security [2](Carnegie Endowment, 2005) and "WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications"[3] (Carnegie Endowment, 2003). He is on the adjunct faculty of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Cirincione chaired and organized the five of the annual Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conferences, considered the premier event in the field. Video and audio recordings of the conferences are available on line as well as a DVD of the 2005 conference highlights,[4] including Cirincione's 15-minute slide and film presentation, "A Brief History of the Nuclear Age."[5]
In May 2004 the National Journal listed Cirincione as one of the 100 people who will play a critical role in the policy debates of the next administration. The World Affairs Councils of America in 2005 named him one of 500 people whose views have the most influence in shaping American foreign policy. Cirincione has also served on the professional staff for the House of Representatives' Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations.
The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reported on October 19, 2005 in the "Heard on the Hill" gossip column, that Cirincione is a friend of Hollywood actor and liberal activist Sean Penn. It was reported that "Cirincione met Penn at a dinner for members of the Ploughshares Fund, where Penn filled in as the celebrity speaker for Michael Douglas, who was off making a new movie. Penn invited the nonproliferation guru back to Bistro Bis, where they drank, talked politics and engaged in a little Bush bashing."
He is featured along with other foreign affairs experts and pundits in interviews in Eugene Jarecki's documentary film Why We Fight.
