Strategy & History
Joe Cirincione, Jon Wolfsthal, Ariane TabatabaiAnalysis of key national security issues, offering timely insights and lessons from past experiences.
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There Is No Deal
“There is no spoon,” a young child tells Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, in one of the most iconic scenes in The Matrix. The world we have been programmed to believe is real is just an illusion.
I thought of this when asked by New Lines Maga...
A Humiliating Defeat, Discussed
I have been either very busy or very lazy the past few weeks. I can’t decide which. I have done dozens of interviews on the US-Israel war on Iran and Lebanon. But I haven’t done much writing on the war. I hope to correct that soon.
Let me...
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An Iran Deal Slips Further Away
Last week, Steve Benen, the producer of the Rachel Maddow Show, used a comment I made to explain why a deal that Donald Trump had declared “largely negotiated,” two weeks ago has collapsed. It wasn’t the Iranians, it was Trump who screwed i...
Trump’s High-Risk Plutonium Scheme
This article was originally published May 28 by MS Now.
Using plutonium from nuclear bombs as fuel for nuclear reactors is a discredited, rejected, dangerous idea as old as the nuclear age. But it is back again, as a group of tech companie...
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Joe Cirincione is a national security analyst and author with over 45 years of experience. I have been a congressional staffer, a program director, a philanthropist, an advisor the the State Department and three presidential campaigns. Now, I write.
Former Sr White House and Presidential advisor and 40+ year veteran of nuclear strategy and global security. US Nuclear Policy Fellow, Pax Sapiens, CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow. Spent time in Iran, North Korea, China, Russia and hot spots in between.
Vice President of Research for Security & Defense at Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Contributing Editor at Lawfare. Ex State Department & Pentagon. Author of books past and future.
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