The Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) and the Association of Foreign Affairs and Trade Employees (AFTE)

present

Reducing Nuclear Weapons and Stopping the New Nuclear-Armed States

Mr Joseph Cirincione
President, Ploughshares Fund
Washington DC

Date:  Monday 6 September,

Time:  5.30pm

Place:  AIIA Conference Centre
Level 1, Stephen House, 32 Thesiger Court, Deakin, ACT

Australia’s co-sponsorship with Japan of the International Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Commission is but one of sign that we may be in a “policy moment” in relation to nuclear weapons. 

The intensification of nuclear threats, the failure of previous regime-change policies, a developing consensus across nations and across parties in the US for deep reductions in nuclear arsenals and new leadership in most major powers may have created a unique opportunity to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

The Ploughshares Fund is the largest grant-making foundation in the US with a mission for peace and security thinks it has. AIIA and AFTE are grateful to the United States Embassy in Canberra for offering our members and guests the opportunity for a conversation with its President, informed by his decades of high level experience in the field of arms control.

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Joseph Cirincione joined Ploughshares Fund as president in 2008, after having directed nonproliferation and international policy programs at the Center for American Progress and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He worked for nine years on the professional staffs of the House Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus. Among other activities he teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons.

Admission is free for AIIA and AFTE members, $10 for guests, payable at the door. Please RSVP by 4 September by emailing by registering on the events page on www.aiia.asn.au, by emailing act.branch@aiia.asn.au or by calling 6232 4978.