Joe Cirincione's blog

With its latest editorial calling for more nuclear weapons and more weapons spending, the Wall Street Journal has gone over a journalistic cliff. The serious factual errors in its Jan. 5 screed, "A False Nuclear Start," raise serious questions about the newspaper's credibility and integrity. Read more >>

Stephen Colbert's plan to string a microscopically thin razor along our entire border is brutal, indiscriminate, dangerous... and smarter than the nuclear defense we now have.

Here is how I learned of his secret plan to defend America. A few weeks ago, I was a guest on his show, The Colbert Report. I came away convinced that Stephen Colbert is as smart as he looks. Read more >>

Stephen Colbert interviews Ploughshares Fund President Joseph Cirincione. The interview was part of the Colbert Report's series "Better Know a Lobbyist".

Joe went in to the studio to speak about the threat of nuclear weapons and Ploughshares Fund's efforts in the nuclear disarmament lobby. Joe came out of the interview inadvertently married to Pakistan and with a better knowledge of how to mime a nuclear blast.

Video after the break: Read more >>

In a blow to the far-right, scientists conclude that U.S. nuclear weapons don’t need new tests or new designs. Read more >>

I was in Berlin 20 years ago this week. I saw the impossible first-hand: the people of Germany taking down the Wall.

I was then working on the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee. We were on a staff tour of NATO military bases and arrived in Berlin during this critical week by pure coincidence. When our delegation took off from Andrews Air Force base outside of Washington the Warsaw Pact was alive and apparently formidable. By the time we landed in Europe, it was falling apart. Read more >>