http://www.ploughshares.org/about-us/staff-board/joseph-cirincione
JOSEPH CIRINCIONE
President Washington, D.C.
Joseph Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. He is the author of the new book 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 is a member of Secretary of State John Kerry's International Security Advisory Board and the Council on Foreign Relations.
His commentary has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Financial Times, Kyodo News, Moscow Times, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Daily Beast, and Huffington Post. He has appeared on ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, PBS, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC News, Australian Broadcasting Coporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, NHK, Russia Today, and Al Jazeera.
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. He is the author of hundreds of articles on nuclear weapons issues, the producer of two DVDs, a frequent commentator in the media, and he appeared in the films, Countdown to Zero and Why We Fight. He previously served as Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the *Center for American Progress and Director for Nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has held positions at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the U.S. Information Agency and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He teaches at the graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
(*Founder: John Podesta)
http://www.ploughshares.org/sites/default/files/resources/Ploughshares-AR-2015-web-version.pdf
GRANTS
FiSCAL YEAR 2015
CENTER FOR AMERiCAN PROGRESS WASHiNGTON, DC To support the ‘Nuclear Cost Crunch’ project that will produce a comprehensive analysis of the costs of planned US nuclear weapons programs and an interactive tool that allows users to make informed tradeo s among policy options. $100,000
CENTER FOR AMERiCAN PROGRESS ACTiON FUND WASHiNGTON, DC To support rigorous, accurate coverage of the Iran nuclear talks on ThinkProgress. $25,000
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/isab/c27632.htm
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to “help” it report on the pact
FWIW, looks like the “ploughshares” program relates in some way to the Plowshare PNE (Peaceful Nuclear Explosions) program the US and Soviets considered back in the 60’s.
http://www.ploughshares.org/about-us/board-advisors
BOARD & ADVISORS
Valerie Plame
Author, former career covert CIA operations officer
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