Joseph Cirincione is Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress. Prior to joining the Center in May 2006, he served as Director for Nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. He teaches at the graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Mr. 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, and served as staff director of the Military Reform Caucus. 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 the author of numerous articles on nuclear weapons issues, the producer of two DVDs on proliferation, and is a frequent commentator on these issues in the media. He recently wrote Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, which will be released in the Spring of 2007. He has also published Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats, and is co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is an honors graduate of Boston College and holds a Masters of Science with highest honors from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.
