Joseph Cirincione Quotations

Secretary Rice has implemented a subtle but important shift in U.S. policy, ... There is no question that the lack of flexibility for the negotiators precluded any possibility of getting a deal for the past three years. Clearly, we are now in a period of give-and-take and genuine negotiations.

Secretary Rice has implemented a subtle but important shift in U.S. policy. There is no question that the lack of flexibility for the negotiators precluded any possibility of getting a deal for the past three years. Clearly, we are now in a period of give-and-take and genuine negotiations.

We looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we've come to the conclusion that it is broken, ... American Morning.

I think the Chapter 7 route is dead on arrival. The US can keep talking about it, but our own policies have doomed it.

It is no surprise nations like South Korea are beginning to hedge their bets in light of the North Korean nuclear weapons advances.

We exaggerated the threat. We worst-cased it and then acted as if that worst case was the most likely case.

The real danger is cherry-picking the data to support a preconceived idea and then connecting the dots to form a faulty picture. This is what happened in Iraq.

We don't know what to make of these reports coming out from the White House yesterday,

We found nothing. There are no large stockpiles of weapons. There hasn't actually been a find of a single weapon, a single weapons agent, nothing like the programs that the administration believe existed.

Don't panic. The Iranian program is still at the very early stages.

The president may have made a fatal error in putting nuclear weapons at the heart of improved US-India relations. Lawmakers want the latter, but not at the price of the former. Worse, Indian officials have made clear that India alone will decide which future reactors will be kept in the military category and exempt from any safeguards.

They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.

They seem to be in a nuclear game of chicken and both cars are right smack in the middle of the road and heading towards each other in full speed. We don't know what is going to happen, we have to wait for somebody to swerve.

telling Saddam that they were further along than they actually were.

You no longer heard comments about tyrants and pygmies. It may seem to be a small matter, but it's very important diplomatically.

India got everything and they gave nothing. The president has sold out U.S. national security interests for a handful of mangoes.

None of them wants to use the United Nations as a staging ground for another military adventure.

It's outrageous for American officials to sell out vital national security interests so that some companies can make a buck.

The factual debate during the next six months will revolve around the threat assessment.

The country is five to 10 years away from the ability to enrich uranium for fuel or bombs.

The Europeans are worried that the U.S. might actually decouple its strategic interest from the European interest, and that's something they want to avoid at all cost.

As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.

It is very likely that intelligence officials were pressured by senior administration officials to conform their threat assessments to pre-existing policies.

I believe a military strike would consolidate the hold of the Islamic government, not loosen it.

All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.

Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth.