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Poneman, Daniel Bruce was born on March 12, 1956 in Toledo. Son of Meyer and Delores Suzanne (Shapiro) Poneman.
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A decade before being proclaimed part of the "axis of evil," North Korea raised alarms in Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo as the pace of its clandestine nuclear weapons program mounted. When confronted by evidence of its deception in 1993, Pyongyang abruptly announced its intention to become the first nation ever to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, defying its earlier commitments to submit its nuclear activities to full international inspections. U.S. intelligence had revealed evidence of a robust plutonium production program. Unconstrained, North Korea's nuclear factory would soon be capable of building about thirty Nagasaki-sized nuclear weapons annually. The resulting arsenal would directly threaten the security of the United States and its allies, while tempting cash-starved North Korea to export its deadly wares to America's most bitter adversaries. In Go ing Critical, three former U.S. officials who played key roles in the nuclear crisis trace the intense efforts that led North Korea to freeze —and pledge ultimately to dismantle —its dangerous plutonium production program under international inspection, while the storm clouds of a second Korean War gathered. Drawing on international government documents, memoranda, cables, and notes, the authors chronicle the complex web of diplomacy--from Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing to Geneva, Moscow, and Vienna and back again —that led to the negotiation of the 1994 Agreed Framework intended to resolve this nuclear standoff. They also explore the challenge of weaving together the military, economic, and diplomatic instruments employed to persuade North Korea to accept significant constraints on its nuclear activities, while deterring rather than provoking a violent North Korean response. Some ten years after these intense negotiations, the Agreed Framework lies abandoned. North Korea claims to possess some nuclear weapons, while threatening to produce even more. The story of the 1994 confrontation provides important lessons for the United States as it grapples once again with a nuclear crisis on a peninsula that half a century ago claimed more than 50,000 American lives and today bristles with arms along the last frontier of the cold war: the De-Militarized Zone separating North and South Korea.
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Poneman, Daniel Bruce was born on March 12, 1956 in Toledo. Son of Meyer and Delores Suzanne (Shapiro) Poneman.
Poneman received Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees with honors from Harvard University, and an Master of Literature in politics from Oxford University, where he was a student at Lincoln College. He is a graduate of Whitmer High School in Toledo, Ohio.
Since 2001, Poneman was a Principal of The Scowcroft Group, a business advisory firm in Washington, District of Columbia Poneman was briefly in 2013 following the resignation of Steven Chu until Ernest Moniz was confirmed and sworn in. Between 1993 and 1996, Poneman served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council. He joined the National Security Council staff in 1990 as the Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, after also serving as a White House Fellow in the United States Department of Energy.
Daniel B. Poneman was nominated by President Barack Obama to be on April 20, 2009, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 18, 2009.
Under the leadership of Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, Mr. Poneman also serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Department.
Poneman served as following the resignation of Secretary Chu on April 22, 2013 until his successor, Ernest Moniz was confirmed by the Senate and was sworn in on May 21, 2013.
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Member Commission to Asses the Organization of Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Distruction, 1997-1999. Member President' Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration. Member District of Columbia Bar, New York Bar, Council Foreign Relations, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Susan Anne Danoff, August 12, 1984. Children: Claire Gillian, Michael Bruder, William Meyer.