President of the Ploughshares Fund, a nonproliferation group based in Washington, DC, and author of Bombscare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction; former senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank
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