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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | John Mecklin |Joe Cirincione |Erik English
It’s become a social media sport to mock citizens who have not yet made up their minds on how to vote in this year’s US presidential election, especially if they say they need “more information” before making their choice. The needling is valid, to a point; after all, Kamala Harris has been vice president for the last 3.75 years, and Donald Trump was president for the preceding four. Google the two names; “insufficient information” won’t be the first search return, I promise you.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
joecirincione.substack.com | Joe Cirincione
Something has been bothering me. Almost every reporter and Israeli official says that Israel intercepted most of the 180 missiles Iran fired at three Israeli military bases October 1. If that were true, then you would expect to see dozens of large explosions in the air as the Israeli Arrow 2 or Arrow 3 interceptors found their targets and destroyed the incoming warheads. But that is not what you see.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
joecirincione.substack.com | Joe Cirincione
Vice-President Kamala Harris made an inspired pick for her running mate with her telephone call this morning. Governor Tim Walz is an accomplished, down-to-earth, Midwestern governor whose pro-family reforms in Minnesota should be a model for our national agenda. This morning, I talked with a friend who has known and backed Tim Walz since his run for Congress in 2006, flipping a red district blue. He was at a fund-raiser that Walz headlined Monday night in Minneapolis.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
defenseone.com | Joe Cirincione
Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email Sponsor Message Sponsor Message “We will replenish our military and build an Iron Dome missile defense system to ensure that no enemy can strike our homeland,” Donald Trump promised at the recent Republican Party convention. “Israel has an Iron Dome. They have a missile defense system,” he said.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Joe Cirincione |François Diaz-Maurin
President Joe Biden has a terrible nuclear policy. A re-elected President Donald Trump’s would be much worse. Biden has authorized the largest nuclear weapons budgets since the Cold War, delayed then squandered his chance to contain Iran’s nuclear program, and apparently has no policy for containing North Korea’s missiles and weapons.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
joecirincione.substack.com | Joe Cirincione
Matt Duss is one of the most principled and knowledgeable national security analysts in Washington. Plus, he is just an all-around great guy. I have had the pleasure of knowing Matt since 2008, when I served as vice-president at the Center for American Progress and he was a young policy analyst there. Every year, he seems to just get better. After years as the national security advisor for Sen.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
joecirincione.substack.com | Joe Cirincione
Richard Haas is a reliable weathervane for Washington’s national security consensus. Haas, the president emeritus of the Council of Foreign Relations and a former official in the George H.W. Bush White House, yesterday called for conditioning U.S. military aid to Israel and implementing trade sanctions.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
joecirincione.substack.com | Joe Cirincione
On Thursday, January 18, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally declared his long-held but never publicly articulated policy of opposing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. “In any future arrangement … Israel needs security control of all territory west of Jordan. This clashes with the idea of (Palestinian) sovereignty. What can you do?” Netanyahu told a news conference in Tel Aviv.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
houstonchronicle.com | Joe Cirincione |John D Isaacs
In 2002 at Fort Benning, Georgia, an infantryman trained for chemical warfare. Today, no nation anywhere admits to having chemical weapons. Barry Williams/Getty ImagesIn the mid-1980s, when we worked on Capitol Hill, the Army wanted to build a new chemical weapon. Called the "Bigeye" bomb, it was a binary device that combined two chemicals to form a deadly nerve agent before being dropped. One drop on the skin could kill.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Joe Cirincione |John D Isaacs
CommentSaveJoe Cirincione was a professional staff member of the House Armed Services Committee, and John Isaacs was executive director of the Council for a Livable World during the fight for the Chemical Weapons Convention. In the mid-1980s, when we worked on Capitol Hill, the Army wanted to build a new chemical weapon. Called the “Bigeye” bomb, it was a binary device that combined two chemicals to form a deadly nerve agent before being dropped. One drop on the skin could kill.
