Cirincione v. Murdock Debate Recap

Yesterday evening, CSIS hosted its first in a series of live debates as part of the PONI Debates the Issues project.  Clark Murdock, PONI Director and CSIS Senior Adviser, took the affirmative and argued the the United States should modernize its nuclear arsenal via the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program.  Joseph Cirincione, President of the Ploughshares Fund, took the negative side.  CSIS RA/Former college debater extraordinaire Jessica Yeats moderated and asked a series of targeted questions after the initial set of statements.  Based on event reactions, people seemed to be huge fans of the debate format instead, according to Joe, "of panels where we are all bored after a few minutes." If you couldn't make the event, watch it via the following links below: Entire event (windows media) Cirincione Opening Arguments (windows media) Murdock Opening Arguments (windows media) Stay tuned for other live debate events we will be hosting throughout the year and feel free to send us any comments you have about the event if you were there or ideas for future debate topics.