Apr 27, 2006 | China, DPE, India, Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., U.S. Congress
George W. Bush thought that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He was wrong. Now Mr. Bush has returned from India, and has proposed a nuclear deal that he believes will help both the Indian and American people. He is wrong again. Mr. Bush wants to...
Jan 1, 2006 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Biothreats, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, United Nations, Weaponization of Space
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,...
Dec 30, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Cold War, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
The United States and Russia maintain thousands of nuclear warheads on long-range ballistic missiles on 15-minute alert. Once launched, they cannot be recalled, and they will strike their targets in roughly 30 minutes. Fifteen years after the end of the Cold...
Dec 10, 2005 | Cold War, DPE, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, News and Updates, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit
Oslo, Norway – Fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, the risk of nuclear disaster is as great as ever with terrorists zealously pursuing atomic weapons, chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei said Saturday in accepting the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize....
Nov 2, 2005 | China, Cold War, DPE, France, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Jonathan Granoff, Nagasaki, NPT, Russia, U.S.
“The more we build these weapons to keep us safe, the less safe we become.” These words came from Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute, an agency committed to the elimination of nuclear weapons, to students and community...
Aug 23, 2005 | Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Media, North Korea
The Process in Place By Rose Gottemoeller The New York Times Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Washington – Negotiators in Beijing have left the most recent round of the six-nation talks on stability and nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula confronted with a North...
Aug 15, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Iran, Media, NPT
Iran: A Crisis Of Choice By Amb. Thomas Graham, Jr. Tompaine.com August 15, 2005 The controversy over the Iranian nuclear program is neither a new issue nor is it a crisis. But if the United States does not handle this issue carefully, the result could be that Iran...
Aug 10, 2005 | Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter
Contents: 1. MPI Chairman delivers address for 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing, Hiroshima, Japan 2. MPI Chairman interview on Australian Broadcast Radio 3. Texts of testimonies by Hiroshima Mayor Akiba and Nagasaki 4. Mayor Itoh to the International Court of...
Aug 6, 2005 | China, Denuclearization, DPE, France, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, India, Japan, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
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...
Aug 6, 2005 | DPE, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, U.S.
In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military...
Jul 18, 2005 | China, Disarmament, DPE, Global Security Institute, Robert Grey, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
By Bush administration officials’ accounts, there is no greater threat than nuclear terrorism, and no government takes that danger more seriously than ours does. Yet the administration’s insistence on getting its own way and refusal to discuss other...
Jun 15, 2005 | Christie Brinkley, Disarmament, Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Michael Douglas, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, Newsletter, NPT, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Dear Friends: The 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference did not accomplish much needed progress in nuclear non-proliferation or disarmament. Renewed efforts to make the world safer have become more urgent. The interim report below tells how a...
Jun 8, 2005 | Bipartisan Security Group, Canada, China, Cold War, Disarmament, Events, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, India, Iran, North Korea, Rose Gottemoeller, Russia, Uncategorized, United Nations, Weapons of Mass Destruction
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...
Jun 8, 2005 | Christie Brinkley, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, NPT
CONTENTS 1. A MESSAGE FROM GSI’S MANAGING DIRECTOR 2. AN APPEAL FROM CHRISTIE BRINKLEY 3. NPT IN GRAVE DANGER, MPI REPORT CONCLUDES 4. NEW ZEALAND MINISTER MARIAN HOBBS CALLS FOR GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, THANKS MPI 5. ARMS CONTROL EXPERTS MEET ON CAPITOL HILL...
May 30, 2005 | Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Iran, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Regrettably, there are times when multilateral forums tend merely to reflect, rather than mend, deep rifts over how to confront the threats we...
May 24, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Disarmament, DPE, Global Security Institute, Iran, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., United Nations
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...
May 17, 2005 | Cold War, DPE, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation
Fifty years ago, I joined Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and eight others in signing a manifesto warning of the dire consequences of nuclear war. This statement, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, was Einstein’s final public act. He died shortly after signing...
May 10, 2005 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Disarmament, DPE, Global Security Institute, Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, NPT, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S., United Nations
“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...
May 2, 2005 | DPE, Global Security Institute, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
As the review conference of the Nonproliferation Treaty convenes in New York this month, we can only be appalled at the indifference of the United States and the other nuclear powers. This indifference is remarkable, considering the addition of Iran and North Korea as...
Apr 22, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Media
April 21, 2005 WASHINGTON In spite of the Bush administration’s recent calls for quick passage, some conservatives are campaigning vigorously to block ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention, a treaty governing the use of the world’s oceans, in the...
Mar 28, 2005 | DPE, Egypt, India, Iran, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
Renewal talks for the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are scheduled for May, yet the United States and other nuclear powers seem indifferent to its fate. This is remarkable, considering the addition of Iran and North Korea as states that either possess or seek...
Mar 28, 2005 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Biothreats, Cold War, DPE, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
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...
Mar 20, 2005 | DPE, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff
Eric Ersequn is spending this weekend resolving a hostage crisis in the Ivory Coast. The Hastings High School senior and other student delegates were given an hour yesterday to peacefully resolve the conflict as part of their participation in a model U.N....
Feb 18, 2005 | China, Disarmament, DPE, Dr. Jane Goodall, France, Global Security Institute, India, Israel, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, NPT, Pakistan, Rose Gottemoeller, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
Contact: Zachary Allen, Tel: 415-397-6760, zack@gsinstitute.org SAN FRANCISCO-Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter recently hosted a consultation of diplomats and government officials at The Carter Center. The Consultation sought to preserve and strengthen the Nuclear...
Jan 25, 2005 | Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Nagasaki, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Robert Grey, United Nations
Dear Friend: The Global Security Institute joins in offering condolences and support to the survivors of the recent tsunami. In the midst of an inspiring outpouring of caring for those injured by world’s worst natural disaster of modern times, where thousands...
Nov 12, 2004 | Cold War, DPE, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
From 10-13 November, twenty-three Nobel peace laureates and laureate organizations met in Rome, Italy for the 5th Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. As in previous years, their annual Summit was organized by the Gorbachev Foundation and co-hosted by former Soviet...
