South Asian Delegates Call for Elimination of Nuclear Arsenals

Jul 12, 2012 | Events

GSI Report By Nadine M. Kjellberg Washington, DC July 18, 2002 A PDF version of this report can be found here By Nadine M. Kjellberg July 18, 2002–WASHINGTON, DC–Addressing a spill over crowd of congressional staffers and religious representatives in the...

Activism Gets Results in Washington, D.C.

Jul 12, 2012 | Events

 Event Report June 15, 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C.–From June 10-13, 2001, Project Abolition, a coalition of non-profit organizations promoting security through nuclear disarmament, worked with the Nuclear Disarmament Partnership to organize a press conference,...

GSI Documentary Project: The Missiliers and Rehearsing Doomsday

Jul 12, 2012 | Events

 GSI Report December 31, 2000 Without first increasing public awareness of nuclear dangers, progress in eliminating them is unlikely. For several years, Senator Cranston and Jonathan Granoff have worked extensively with veteran Sixty Minutes II producer George...

Religious and Military Leaders Call for Nuclear Disarmament

Jul 12, 2012 | Events

 GSI Report June 21, 2000 On June 21, 2000, religious and military leaders issued a call through Washington National Cathedral for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The Call by Military and Religious Leaders, endorsed by 18 retired flag-rank military officials...

The NPT Atlanta Consultation

Jul 12, 2012 | Events

 GSI Report January 30, 2000 On January 26-27, 2000, the Middle Powers Initiative and The Carter Center co-sponsored the Atlanta Consultation on the Future of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The purpose was to serve as a forum for groups to share thoughts on the...

In Memoriam: Alan MacGregor Cranston

Jul 12, 2012 | GSI News

(June 19, 1914-December 31, 2000) A Statement by the Global Security Institute January 1, 2001 Obituary Senator Alan Cranston died standing up. While preparing to start a new day, the 86 year old father, grandfather, friend, and leader passed away standing at his...

NATO Looks Backward, Nobel Peace Laureates Look Forward to Youth

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Jonanthan Granoff and Pavel PalazhchenkoHuffington Post May 31, 2012 NATO’s Heads of State and Government met in Chicago on May 20 and 21. A few weeks earlier, April 23-25, the Nobel Peace Laureates gathered there for their annual summit. A city that could...

The Meaning of Iran’s Nuclear Weapon Program

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Rhianna Tyson KregerHuffington PostMay 18, 2012 Iran’s presumed quest for nuclear weapons isn’t just about nuclear weapons. It is also about prestige, and it is also about respect, both of which Iran believes it is entitled to, and neither of which it...

Iran: All Options On the Table?

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  By Jonathan Granoff Huffington Post March 21, 2012   We hear a great deal of bravado on the best way to respond to the international security threat posed by Iran. The mantra of having “all options on the table” should include the many options...

Iran: The Course Ahead

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  By Thomas Graham Ambassadors Perspective March 15, 2012   Iran has been pursuing a nuclear program for nearly four decades.  It began when the Shah was in power, was initially not continued by the Islamic Republic but by the late 1980’s was...

Reagan & Reykjavik

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by James Goodby and Nathan Pyles The Hill November 21, 2011   The world recently marked the 25th anniversary of the historic Reykjavik summit, when President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in a simple clapboard house in...

More than Moralism: How Values Matter to Nuclear Security

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson Review of Faith & International Affairs August 2011   Nuclear weapons are devices; a means to a variety of ends. Ethical analysis must have compelling moral ends as the primary point of reference. By morally examining a...

Purpose, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by David Krieger counterpunch.org August 26-28, 2011   Recently, a friend sent me a copy of Admiral Hyman Rickover’s 1982 Morgenthau Memorial Lecture.  The lecture, given under the auspices of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International...

International Security on the Road to Nuclear Security

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Dr. Nancy Gallagher The Nonproliferation Review June 2011 The disappointingly slow pace of progress on efforts to prevent proliferation, reduce nuclear weapons, and eliminate nuclear risks has many causes. The factor that might be easiest for individuals in the...

Nuclear Energy and Weapons: Uncontrollable in Time and Space

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Alyn Ware Huffington Post March 23, 2011   The earthquake and tsunami in Japan devastated a whole region. Radioactive emissions from the damaged nuclear reactors are very serious, and have already contaminated food and water, prompting a ban on food exports...

Wisdom or Fatal Folly

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger Huffington Post March 15, 2011   As the health impact of smoking became better known to Americans, the practice eventually diminished. The cigarette industry decided to look beyond US borders. Huge amounts of money are...

The path towards eliminating nukes is clear-cut

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by Douglas Roche Embassy March 9, 2011   Two events have coincided to give the Canadian government a powerful opportunity to play a key role in the growing effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Both the Senate and the House of Commons have...

START-ing a new security

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Huffington Post by Rhianna Tyson Kreger December 23, 2010   If you witnessed a lot of hubbub in Dupont Circle pubs last night, it’s a good chance it was the celebrations of my passionate arms control friends and colleagues, relishing the victory that...