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Iran: All Options On the Table?
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 beyond just...
Iran: The Course Ahead
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 was...
United Nations
Its Time to Make the Middle East WMD-Free by Jonathan Granoff – Published in the World Policy Dog
http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2013/09/12/its-time-make-middle-east-wmd-free Eliminating the chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria through international cooperation and bringing Syria into full compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention would be a public good for...
Syria: Law and Legitimacy by Jonathan Granoff published in the Huffington Post
We can hear the drum beats of war again. Syria certainly appears to have committed heinous acts. The rebels may also have done so as well. Chemical weapons have not been the only horrific means of injuring innocent people. Tens of thousands have died and millions of...
Inter-Parliamentary Union Handbook: Supporting Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
The Inter-Parliamentary Union, the focal point for worldwide parliamentary dialogue working to establish representative democracy and promote peace and cooperation among peoples, together with the GSI program, the network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear...
MPI Holds Framework Forum Conference in Berlin
February 22-23, 2013 Creating the Conditions and Building the Framework for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World was the title of the Middle Power Initiative's Berlin Framework Forum, a new initiative designed to help implement the decisions of the 2010 NPT Review Conference...
A Personal Appeal from Jonathan Granoff
"While we sleep, death is awake. Death keeps watch from the warehouses that store more than 23,000 nuclear warheads, like 23,000 eyes open and waiting for a moment of carelessness." - Former President of Costa Rica, Nobel Laureate, and GSI Advisory Board...
Reflections on the Golden Rule for Today by Jonathan Granoff
presentation delivered at the Rotary Club Breakfast United Nations, New York City It is an honor to speak to you today. Rotary Clubs inspire at personal, local and global levels. Whether it is to remind an individual business man that his decisions matter or...
A UN Celebration: Love Towards All, Malice Towards None
(L-R): Anwar ul Haque Chishty, Jonathan Granoff, Salman Chishty, Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, and Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri (photography credits: Jay Mandal) (UN Headquarters, New York): On the occasion of India's Presidency of the UN Security Council, the...
Launch of the PNND/IPU Handbook at the Inter-Parliamentary Un ion Assembly in Québec, Canada
Nearly 1000 parliamentarians from 150 parliaments (including most of those from nuclear weapons-possessing countries) will gather in Quebec City for the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly from October 21-26th 2012. PNND and IPU will use the occasion to...
GSI E-Alert: Extraordinary Week at the United Nations
Dear friends, This has been an historic week at the United Nations. The US President chairing a summit of the Security Council and its adoption of a far reaching resolution on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation is extraordinary. Moreover, it is indicative that...
Nuclear Weapons and International Humanitarian Law
April 20, 2012 Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City » Download the full PDF report (includes transcript) How does, and how should, international humanitarian law (IHL) governing the conduct of warfare apply to nuclear weapons? On April 20, 2012, three highly qualified...
U.S. Congress
Expressing The Sense of The Congress That Nuclear Weapons Should Be Taken off The Hair-Trigger Alert – In The House of Representatives
106th CONGRESS 1st Session H. CON. RES. 177 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 5, 1999 Mr. MARKEY submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for...