Jun 27, 2018 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Cold War, Denuclearization, Douglas Roche, GSI News, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, North Korea, U.S.
Dear Friends, This is a time in which serious thinking is needed. Spectacle is interesting entertainment, but only for a short while. It is insufficient for responsible governance of international security issues. The recent G7 Summit, which brought allies to...
Apr 9, 2015 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, NPT, Op Eds, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Rose Gottemoeller, U.S., United Nations
The below article, regarding Pope Francis’ recent statement and the April 9 event which GSI co-hosted with the Holy See to highlight it, was originally published by TIME on Friday, April 10. The original version can be found here. By Elizabeth Dias –...
Mar 16, 2015 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Op Eds, Russia, U.S.
The original article, which was published on March 16, 2015 in Russian by the TASS News Agency of Russia, can be found here. Below english translation provided by TASS News Agency of Russia. NEW YORK, March 16 /TASS/. Time for “new realism” has...
Jan 13, 2015 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Op Eds, United Nations
This op/ed, written by GSI President Jonathan Granoff, was published in the Huffington Post on January 13, 2015. Violence, war, catastrophes, and the personal affairs of celebrities pass for news these days, but we need more than that. In troubled times like these,...
Jan 18, 2013 | China, Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, France, GSI News, India, Israel, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations, Weapons of Mass Destruction
“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...
Oct 24, 2008 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Henrik Salander, Biothreats, Cold War, Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, U.S., United Nations
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 Studies, the British-American...
Apr 24, 2008 | China, Cold War, France, Global Terrorism, India, Israel, Japan, Media, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., United Nations
prepared for the Model United Nations convention Marriot Marquis, New York City April 24, 2008 Thanks again to the organizers for inviting me back here to discuss nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation to this outstanding group of young people. From briefly...
Apr 8, 2008 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Biothreats, Cold War, DPE, India, Iran, Israel, Media, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., U.S. National Security
Washington Times April 2, 2008 After a long dry spell, the seeds planted by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in 1985 and Reykjavik in 1986, appear to be bearing fruit. Their declaration in Geneva that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must...
Oct 1, 2007 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, China, Cold War, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Russia, Uncategorized, Weaponization of Space
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events GSI eNewsletter Advancing a Cooperative Security Regime in Outer Space: GSI Events During the GA First Committee Project Report By Rhianna Tyson October, 2007 October 15...
Jan 25, 2007 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, North Korea, NPT, Op Eds, Robert Grey
Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is a pleasure to share “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons”, an op-ed by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn which was published in The Wall Street Journal on January 4, 2007. It is a seminal document in...
Mar 29, 2006 | China, Cold War, Global Terrorism, Iran, Israel, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, U.S., United Nations
A Dangerous Deal with India by Jimmy Carter The Washington Post March 29, 2006 During the past five years the United States has abandoned many of the nuclear arms control agreements negotiated since the administration of Dwight Eisenhower. This change in...
Mar 25, 2006 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Hiroshima, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Nagasaki, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up It is a pleasure for me to deliver the 2006 Karlsruhe Lecture. My wife asked me a few days ago why I was so excited to be visiting a group of...
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...
Jun 30, 2005 | China, Cold War, Disarmament, France, Global Security Institute, Nagasaki, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., UK
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we’ve come. His counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe...
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...
May 26, 2005 | Cold War, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, U.S., Weaponization of Space
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up A metaphorical “nuclear option” – the cutoff of debate in the Senate on judicial nominees – has just been defused, but a...
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...
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...
Nov 12, 2004 | Cold War, DPE, GSI News, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence
Introduction Saadi, the Persian poet of the 13th century, sang: The human family is one body with many parts Creations arising from one unseen essence Any harm to any part summons an awakening a dis-ease and a healing response from all parts You who fail to feel the...
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...
Nov 11, 2004 | Cold War, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, U.S., United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Remarks by Mary Ellen McNish Secretary General, American Friends Service Committee Before I begin my short remarks I feel I must, as an American,...
Nov 11, 2004 | Cold War, DPE, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., United Nations
International terrorism and nuclear weapons are two areas of the greatest concern to world security at the present time. President George W. Bush said the following about nuclear weapons: “They are the pre-eminent threat to international security.” With...
Nov 5, 2004 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, China, Cold War, Denuclearization, DPE, France, Global Security Institute, India, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, Russia, Speeches & Presentations, U.S., UK
In 1958, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made clear the reason the United Kingdom acquired nuclear weapons. Referring to the British nuclear weapon program, Macmillan said in a television interview that “the independent contribution [i.e., British...
Jun 14, 2004 | Biothreats, Cold War, DPE, Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Jonathan Granoff, Senator Alan Cranston, United Nations
Contact: Zachary Allen Tel: (415) 397-6760 “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...
