From the threat of planetary devastation to the collapse of the Bush Doctrine, from the tenuous nonproliferation movement the obstacles to disarmament, the head of the Ploughshares Fund delineates current trends and shows progressives how to organize for a safe, sane nuclear policy.
Cirincione's momentum: "I was assigned nuclear issues in 1985 when I joined the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee. I was appalled by the waste, irrationality, and planetary threat these weapons represent."
Bio
Melissa Bradley-Burns
Melissa Bradley-Burns is a Senior Strategist for Green For All. Her primary role is leading the Capital Access Program - working to provide human, social and financial capital to entrepreneurs and businesses in an effort to create, scale and sustain green jobs.
Bradley-Burns currently serves as an Advisor to Renewal 2 Investment Fund and holds board positions with Georgetown University Board of Governors, Green America, the Tides Network and the Tides Foundation. Bradley-Burns holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Georgetown University and a Master's in Business Administration in Marketing from American University.
Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione is President of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. He has served as Vice President at the Center for American Progress and Director for Nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
He is the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats. He teaches at the graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. 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 film, Why We Fight.
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.
This is an extremely clear overview of the current situation with regard to nuclear weapons, the other great threat on the global agenda which has been partly eclipsed from the public mind by worries about climate change.
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The May 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York will be what Copenhagen was for climate change.
We must all listen and learn in order to get our thinking straight and support world leaders in their efforts to deal with the nuclear threat.
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