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GSI Communique

The Global Security Institute endeavors to consistently provide relevant, insightful communications to advance the rule of law, the moral imperative to ensure a sustainable future and the elimination of nuclear weapons. We hope you find this material of value. June 7...

Books: The Sovereignty Revolution

“Senator Alan Cranston was a passionate public servant, a true citizen of the world and an inspirational force for peace. The Sovereignty Revolution, finished shortly before his death, gives voice to his visionary understanding of how to create a world with more...

Books: Spy Satellites

Much has been said and written about the failure of U.S. intelligence to prevent the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and its overestimation of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction under Saddam Hussein. This book focuses instead on the central role that...

Books: Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World

» Receive a signed copy with your contribution of $200 or more to the Global Security Institute. Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World Edited by Manpreet Sethi “Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World” features the presentations made at the 2008 high-level...

Books: War in Heaven

When most of us think about the potential of outer space for future generations, we think of world communications, satellite navigation, and scientific exploration. U.S. Space Command, however, thinks about weapons. Believing that conflict in space and wars fought...

“Fail Safe” Sparks the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Press Release March 31, 2000 WASHINGTON, DC: Nuclear disarmament advocates plan to capitalize on heightened public awareness of the danger posed by nuclear weapons thanks, in part, to CBS’s remake of the 1964 nuclear weapons thriller, “Fail Safe.”...

India Poised to Take Lead on Nuclear Disarmament

Twenty-three years after Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi presented to the world an Action Plan to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, India is once again poised to take a leadership role on global nuclear disarmament efforts.   Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi presenting his...

Good News for Disarmament!

Governments have now explicitly recognized the centrality of international humanitarian law (IHL) in the field of nuclear weapons policies. The 2010 NPT Review Conference expressed “deep concern at the catastrophic consequences of any use of nuclear...

Honoring Footsteps

Remarks by Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute on accepting the Arthur E. Armitage Distinguished Alumni Award Rutgers University Law School-Camden June 11, 2009 Although it is my name and hands accepting this honor today, the reality is that...

Strategy Session on the NPT

Event report  by Irfan Ahmed, Rhianna Tyson Kreger and Jesse Ziegler March 16, 2010   Over 75 ambassadors, experts and UN staff attended the event.   On Tuesday, March 16, 2010, the Global Security Institute held a briefing for ambassadors, diplomats...

Event Report: A discussion with Dr. Barry Kellman

Strengthening Global Security From Biothreats: A discussion with Dr. Barry Kellman Policy roundtable event report By Katherine Prizeman   (L-R): GSI President Jonathan Granoff, Dr. Barry Kellman and Dr. W. Pal Sidhu       On April 15, 2010, the...

Event Report: Progressive Initiatives

Panel event organized by the Global Security Institute and the Government of Austria May 6, 2009 Project Report by Jim Wurst, MPI Program Director “Progressive Initiatives”, a UN panel event organized by the Global Security Institute (GSI) and co-sponsored...

Event Report: Voices of Experience

Panel event organized by the Global Security Institute, the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs May 7, 2009 by Jim Wurst, MPI Program Director The May 7 panel “Voices of Experience” lived up to its...

Remarks by Ambassador Robert Grey Jr.,

at the Arthur Armitage Award Ceremony honoring Jonathan Granoff Rutgers Law School-Camden June 11, 2009 (Check against delivery) I am honored to be here today to honor the man you have chosen to honor. He is simply put unique. His life’s work is to strengthen...

Remarks by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.,

Remarks by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.,at the Arthur Armitage Award Ceremony honoring Jonathan Granoff Rutgers Law School-Camden June 11, 2009 We are here today to honor Jonathan Granoff, the 2009 recipient of the Arthur E. Armitage, Sr. Distinguished Alumni Award...

Strategizing for a Nuclear Weapons Convention

Event Report A workshop of “Seizing the Moment: A One-Day Consultation on Breakthrough Measures to Build a New East West Consensus on Weapons of Mass Destruction and Disarmament” co-sponsored by the EastWest Institute, the Center for Nonproliferation...