Obama's Plan for Nuclear Disarmament - Joseph Cirincione

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/09/CONFLICT_Joseph_Cirincione_on_US_Nuclear_Policy

Joseph Cirincione explains President Obama's proposal to eliminate the world's arsenal of nuclear weapons. "He Obama believes to his bones that the only way to secure America from the threats of nuclear attack is to eliminate these weapons entirely."

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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."

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.

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[eastariel]

Words are one thing; actions are another. We'll just have to see whether those words come from his heart or just his mouth.

[eastariel]

Joseph, you seem to understand this issue well. Yes, it will take all of us (or at least a very many of us) to help make world peace a possibility.

And there can be world peace when all those monstrous beastly WMDs have been dismantled once and for all.

Then, as a world, we must watch over the deadly seeds, the ingredients used to build those bombs. Developing trust between ALL nations will help.

Inclusion is necessary to create world peace.

[eastariel]

America must apologize to Japan -- not an "oops we got caught" apology, but a real one.

America must apologize to Japan for dropping two WMDs on Japan's gentle villagers after bombing them for months (6) 66 years ago.

A real apology means 100% nuclear disarmament in America.

This American apology will help to repair America's health, financial, drug, and violence epidemics. This apology will help to bring peace to the world.

[jers59]

This anti american coward in chief obama is weaking the US from destroying our space program to ruining our military This piece of human shit will not respond with nuclear weapons if thousands of americans are killed by his muslim brothers with chemical or biological weapons. I can only hope the only people who suffer in next terrorist attack and it is coming with this pussy sitting in white house are assholes who voted this coward in.

[jers59]

liar swedish police will not go into areas where there are large populations of muslims due to crime almost all crimes of rapes and murders in sweden and norway are comitted by muslim savages

[freedombase]

obama is making sure the us cant defend our selves when the muslims/communist/socialist take over and turn America into a Nazi Muslim Socialist dictatorship

[AxiomofDiscord]

These countries have trouble with immigration as well have you not noticed ... Their borders are a lot more open than you think. I also have no problem paying taxes that are spent the way I would like to see them spent.

Having no choice in the matter is what bothers me.

Aberran

[marsCubed]

I think the nuke plan is great IMO, It's an example of how international opinion can crush an evil market.

Kyoto was an example of how good new hi tech markets can be created in similar ways. Innovation suits the USA very well.

It also brings good new jobs.

The debate should be about how open agreements and Govs are. not whether we have them. A good deal is good stuff,

Corps avoid tax, so the right's is a null argument.

look up transfer pricing.

President Obama is closing the tax havens.

[GuppyPal]

Imagine where we'd be if all the time and energy used for destruction had been used to help humanity instead? I mean, I know a lot of good things have come from military research and all, but spending billions on nuclear weapons seems like a waste of money to say the least.