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An open, honest nuclear debate
The Edmonton Journal by Douglas Roche May 6, 2009 The consultation process launched by the Alberta government to determine if a nuclear power plant should be built in the Peace River area appears designed to dampen any opposition to the plan. MORE...
Humanity’s Greatest Challenge and Its Solution
Huffington Post by Kim Cranston May 4, 2009 Climate change is not humanity's greatest challenge (even though scientists predict it may unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration in 20 years, and increase the global surface temperature up to 11.5...
A Clarifying Call
Disarmament Times by Rhianna Tyson Spring 2009 With the ushering in of the Obama administration, the mood of the international security community has drastically changed. We have moved far from that low point in May 2005, when the Review Conference of the...
Mr. Obama and Nuclear Weapons
Washington Post Letter to the Editor Thomas Graham, Jr. April 13, 2009 Anne Applebaum claimed that worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons was President Obama's idea ["Yes, We Can . . . Disarm?" op-ed, April 7]. But President Ronald Reagan called for the elimination...
Zero Nuclear Weapons
April 3, 2009 New York Times Michael Christ, IPPNW Executive-Director Letter to the Editor Re “Promises of a ‘Fresh Start’ for U.S.-Russia Relations” (news article, April 2): Twenty-three years ago, President Ronald Reagan and President Mikhail...
Japan’s Mistake at the NSG
Far Eastern Economic Review Kono Taro, PNND Council January 2009 Every year, Japan submits a resolution on nuclear disarmament to the United Nations General Assembly. This year was no different; the 15th such resolution was submitted in October. As the only country in...
UN Sets Ground for Future Disarmament Battles
Arms Control Today Jim Wurst December 2008 The UN General Assembly committee dealing with nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament issues ran a wait-and-see session in October 2008, with progress perhaps stymied by the upcoming presidential transition in the United...
North Korea and Six Party Talks: Resolving a Nuclear Crisis
by Kevin Davis Disarmament Times Fall 2008, Vol. 31, No.3 August 11 was the day many expected North Korea to be removed from the United States' list of state sponsors of terrorism as a result of Pyongyang's progress towards dismantling its nulear program. The day,...
Back to the drawing board
The Hindu Op-ed by Aaron Tovish August 29, 2008 Last September, I was accorded the privilege of contributing an article to The Hindu on the subject of the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal. The editor chose to introduce the piece by spotlighting the following two...
Triumph of Peace
August 27, 2008 South China Morning Post Op-ed by David Krieger The world has again witnessed 16 days of extraordinary beauty and talent by young athletes gathered from throughout the world. The athletes met in Beijing for the XXIXth Olympic Games of modern times and...
United Nations
GSI eNewsletter: January 1, 2006
Contents: Message from the President Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala joins GSI Advisory Board Highlight of Activities: - MPI Article VI Forum in New York - PNND 2005 Report - General Conference of OPANAL, Santiago, Chile - PNND Assembly, Seoul, Republic of Korea - Panel...
Space Security: Core Issues and Questions – Event Report by John Koogler, GSI Sarah Estabrooks, Project Ploughshares – United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up United Nations, New York - On October 11, 2005, The Global Security Institute and the (Space Security Index (SSI)) co-hosted an event at the United...
Peace Declaration on the 60th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima – Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba – Speech Delivered to the Annual Peace Memorial Ceremony
Hiroshima, Japan This August 6, the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing, is a moment of shared lamentation in which more than 300 thousand souls of A-bomb victims and those who remain behind transcend the boundary between life and death to remember that day. It is...
A Promising Direction for G8 Leadership by Rose Gottemoeller
About BSG BSG Experts News Room BSG Publications Newsletter Sign Up At the close of the Gleneagles Summit this week, Russia will take over leadership of the Group of Eight, the "super club" of countries that in theory are driving the world economy and political...
U.S., NATO Nuclear Policies “Immoral” – McNamara By Louis Charbonneau
United Nations - U.S. and NATO nuclear policies are immoral, dangerous and destructive for the global nuclear non-proliferation regime, a former Defense Secretary from the Vietnam War era, Robert McNamara, said on Tuesday. McNamara, who spoke at a conference taking...
Ex U.S. Defense Chief Warns U.N. on Nukes by William M. Reilly
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said Tuesday he feared the U.N. nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference will...
United Nations Hold Press Conference on NPT – United Nations Press Release
"The United States could not preach temperance from a barstool", United States Congressman Ed Markey said yesterday at a Headquarters press conference, referring to the United States' interest in developing a nuclear "bunker-buster" weapon while seeking to...
U.S. Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Goals: Honoring the Balance – Event Report on Press Conference & Evening Panel by Matt Werner – United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Read the UN Press Briefing On May 9th, the Global Security Institute, in partnership with The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and the Simons...
Mikhail Gorbachev to Present 2005 Alan Cranston Peace Award to Ted Turner
Gorbachev Expected to Call for a New Era of Glasnost and Perestroika for Addressing the Continued, Dangerous Existence of Nuclear Arsenals Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell To Preside Over United Nations Ceremony NEW YORK, March 28 2005-Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev...
GSI eNewsletter: March 28, 2005
Dear Friend: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is essential to global security. It establishes a legal and moral norm to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and obtain their global elimination. Its future is at risk. The Global Security Institute is...
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