Arkin and Cirincione would inexorably have eviscerated the credibility of that retaliatory threat .
The existing missile defense system was "deeply flawed, " said Cirincione, whose foundation opposes nuclear weapons.
CNN: U.S. to beef up missile defense against North Korea, Iran
Dr. CIRINCIONE: Certain hard-line Israelis who are aimed at preventing a U.S.-Syrian or an Israeli-Syrian dialogue.
Cirincione says some in Israel as well are also using the air strike story to affect possible future talks with Syria.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Joseph Cirincione.
The second Obama foreign policy group consists of a younger crowd, notably Joseph Cirincione and Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress.
Joe Cirincione, an expert on nuclear proliferation with the Center for American Progress, has serious doubts about the veracity of the story so far.
What is profoundly distressing about statements by men like Cirincione and Gates is what they tell us about the strategic reasoning informing the incoming Obama administration.
Dr. JOSEPH CIRINCIONE (Expert on Nuclear Proliferation, Center for American Progress): This is the most overblown story I've seen since before the buildup to the war in Iraq.
And if as Cirincione advocates, Obama intends to place Israel's nuclear arsenal on the negotiating table, he will effectively be giving Iran a green light to attack Israel with nuclear weapons.
That effectively narrows the potential U.S. nuclear targets to the eight declared nuclear powers, as well as Iran and possibly Syria, said Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, an arms-control group.
However, Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund told CNN the planned expansion would only spend more money on a system that doesn't work to protect against a still unrealized North Korean threat.
CNN: U.S. to beef up missile defense against North Korea, Iran
Over the past few years, Obama's top nuclear nonproliferation adviser, Joe Cirincione, has repeatedly advocated placing Israel's nuclear arsenal on the negotiating table and offering it up in exchange for an Iranian pledge to end its nuclear program.
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