Subject: [big campaign] TODAY 1PM: Missile Defense Press Call
From: Adam Blickstein <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:22:01 -0400
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TODAY 1PM: Missile Defense Press Call

Washington D.C. - Today at 1:00 PM EDT, several national security and missile defense experts will provide reaction to the Obama administration's decision to not to proceed with Bush-era plans to place untested, ground-based missile interceptor system in Poland and the Czech Republic. Nonproliferation expert Joe Cirincione, missile defense expert Philip Coyle, and intelligence expert Greg Thielmann will discuss how the decision reflects the need to respond to new threats and underscores the new technological realities of missile defense.

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WHO:             Joe Cirincione, President of Ploughshares Fund;
                        Philip Coyle, senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information;
                        Greg Thielmann, senior fellow Arms Control Association

WHAT:           Press Call to discuss Missile Defense

WHEN:           Today, Thursday September 17
                        1:00 PM

Joseph Cirincione, President of the Ploughshares Fund, served previously as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ksqrm4cab.0.0.olnitxbab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanprogress.org%2F&id=preview> and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. He worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a professional staff member of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus. He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Philip Coyle is a senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information. He is a recognized expert on U.S. and worldwide military research, development and testing, on operational military matters, and on national security policy and defense spending, including defense acquisition reform and defense procurement. Coyle also has extensive background in missile defense, in military space systems, and in high-technology weapons, such as high power lasers and other directed-energy weapons. From his many years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Coyle also has considerable experience in nuclear weapons research, development, and testing, and nuclear weapons effects, including EMP.

Greg Thielmann most recently served as a senior professional staffer of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). Prior to joining the SSCI in 2005, he was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for 25 years, last serving as Director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs Office in the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. His foreign posts include Deputy Political Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil; Political-Military Affairs Officer in Moscow, USSR; and Political-Military Affairs Officer in Bonn, Germany. Thielmann also served as the Deputy Office Director in the State Department's Office of German, Austrian and Swiss Affairs; Special Assistant to Ambassador Paul Nitze (then Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters); and State Department advisor to the U.S. Delegation at the Geneva INF arms control negotiations. Greg is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Arms Control Association (2003-2005). His July 2003 appearance at an ACA press briefing on faulty intelligence assessments on Iraq's WMD capabilities.
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Adam Blickstein
Communications Director
National Security Network
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617-335-0859 (mobile)
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