Do Nuclear Weapons Pose a Serious Threat?
Joseph Cirincione is project director at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an organization that conducts research on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Despite assertions from the Bush administration that the 2003 war in Iraq was necessary to protect Americans, weapons inspections conducted by the United States after the war have proven that the war was not necessary to maintain global security. Inspectors have uncovered only partially completed weapons programs, evidence that ongoing UN weapons inspections had succeeded in deterring…
