Apr 8, 2002 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Douglas Roche, DPE, Global Terrorism, India, Iraq, Israel, Middle Powers Initiative, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, U.S., United Nations
Global Security Institute April 8-19, 2002 SUMMARY An exercise in frustration, the first meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty dashed the hopes raised at the 2000 Review for serious progress on nuclear disarmament....
Apr 8, 2002 | Events, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Ladies and Gentle Men: It is with a profound sense of responsibility that I stand to speak to you today on a subject of such urgency that no words are...
Apr 4, 2002 | Disarmament, DPE, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., United Nations
13. NGO Statements: 14 Presentations 13.1The PrepComm devoted the whole of Wednesday morning of the first week to hearing 14 NGO Statements. The exercise was convened by Reaching Critical Will, a project of the Women’s International League for Peace and...
Apr 4, 2002 | 9-11, Cold War, Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Douglas Roche, Hiroshima, Middle Powers Initiative, Nagasaki, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Twenty years ago, in 1982, a world commission led by the Swedish diplomat Inga Thorsson published a report on the relationship between disarmament and...
Mar 12, 2002 | China, Denuclearization, Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
March 12, 2002 Details of the US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) make explicit a dangerous shift that threatens to undermine US security by encouraging others to develop new nuclear weapons and use them, and would violate US political and legal obligations. The NPR is a...
Mar 12, 2002 | Canada, China, Douglas Roche, France, India, Israel, Media, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 The idea of waging nuclear war is taking flight in Washington. Canada must protest, says DOUGLAS ROCHE, former chair of the UN Disarmament Committee. Nuclear weapons are back on the front pages, with news of a Bush administration policy...
Mar 12, 2002 | Canada, China, Douglas Roche, Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Libya, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., Uncategorized
Pentagon Report Reveals Dangerous Shift in US Nuclear Doctrine Details of the US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) make explicit a dangerous shift that threatens to undermine US security by encouraging others to develop new nuclear weapons and use them, and would violate...
Mar 2, 2002 | Canada, China, Disarmament, Douglas Roche, France, India, Israel, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
A)- Details of the US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) make explicit a dangerous shift that threatens to undermine US security by encouraging others to develop new nuclear weapons and use them, and would violate US political and legal obligations. The NPR is a political...
Feb 14, 2002 | Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., U.S. Congress
February 14, 2002 In December 2001, the Washington Post reported that some officials in the Bush administration were advocating the development of a new “usable” nuclear weapon or “mini-nuke.” Additional news articles in January 2002,...
Jan 1, 2002 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Nobel Summit, Nuclear Proliferation
2002 Annual Report Download Here (PDF) During this time of war, we must “refuse to accept the cynicism and despair that crushes hope and vision.” I invite you to join the Nobel Peace Laureates, who at a recent gathering in Rome affirmed strongly “our...
Jan 1, 2002 | Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation
In January 2002, the GSI Board of Directors and the MPI International Steering Committee unanimously endorsed a resolution accepting “the Middle Powers Initiative [www.middlepowers.org]as a program of the Global Security Institute.” GSI will now take...
Jan 1, 2002 | Cold War, India, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., Uncategorized
1. DE-ALERT ARSENALS Most Americans do not know that both the U.S. and Russia maintain a policy requiring that their nuclear arsenals, including more than 6000 strategic warheads in silos and submarines, remain on a Cold War level of hair-trigger alert, ready to...
Oct 21, 2001 | 9-11, Biothreats, China, Cold War, Cuba, Europe, Global Terrorism, India, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., Uncategorized, United Nations, United Nations Security Council
A Leading Role for the Security Council MOSCOW – In the past month, the world has witnessed something previously unknown: a common stand taken by America, Russia, Europe, India, China, Cuba, most of the Islamic world and numerous other regions and countries....
Oct 8, 2001 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Denuclearization, Global Terrorism, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., United Nations
October 8, 2001 I begin by congratulating you, Mr. Chairman, upon your election to guide the work of this Committee. Your distinguished career equips you well for the tasks ahead — a career that, in the disarmament area, features your prominent role in the...
Sep 23, 2001 | Global Terrorism, India, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan
September 23, 2001 Since World War II, humanity has mastered extraordinary challenges. We can orbit the earth. We can transplant organs. We can travel faster than sound, and we can communicate across the globe almost instantaneously. We can commit global suicide, too....
Sep 12, 2001 | Biothreats, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
September 12, 2001 SAN FRANCISCO: Tuesday morning’s attacks on the people of New York and Washington, DC are a stunning demonstration of humanity’s capability to reduce the best of what we are to rubble, smoke, and death. In the aftermath of such horror,...
Sep 1, 2001 | Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Weaponization of Space
September, 2001 Number of nuclear weapons in the world: 30,000 * 8 countries (US, Russia, China, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, India and Israel) posses nuclear weapons. Several thousand of these weapons can still reach the US within 30 minutes of launch. Number of...
Aug 13, 2001 | China, India, Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Libya, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., United Nations, Weaponization of Space
Our Best Defense To the Editor: Conservatives and liberals alike should be wary of the alarmist rhetoric of Americans for Missile Defense (news article, Aug. 6). The coalition’s spokesman, Jeffrey Baxter, suggests that we need a missile defense rather...
Aug 13, 2001 | China, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., United Nations, Weaponization of Space
To the Editor: Conservatives and liberals alike should be wary of the alarmist rhetoric of Americans for Missile Defense (news article, Aug. 6). The coalition’s spokesman, Jeffrey Baxter, suggests that we need a missile defense rather than diplomacy:...
Jun 14, 2001 | Cold War, Disarmament, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up We, who have been chosen as their leaders by the people who live in many of the great cities of the world, hereby join in the calls made by many past...
Apr 11, 2001 | Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
April 11, 2001 TRANSCRIPT Panel discussion held April 11, 2001 in the United Nations by the NGO Committee on Disarmament, in cooperation with the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs and the UN Department of Public Information. Panelists: AMBASSADOR NORMAN WULF,...
Mar 7, 2001 | Jonathan Granoff, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S., United Nations
Questions and Answers About Thirteen Days with Ted Sorenson, Richard Butler, and Jonathan Granoff March 7, 2001 Q: I am a consultant from the United Nations. Do you think that the situation today has changed, and that we have reached a comfort zone with these weapons...
Mar 7, 2001 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
March 7, 2001 JONATHAN GRANOFF: We are privileged to have with us Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala who is the Under Secretary General of the United Nations with the special charge of Disarmament Affairs. Why is the movie Thirteen Days an important movie? AMBASSADOR...
Mar 7, 2001 | Global Terrorism, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., United Nations
March 7, 2001 Jonathan Granoff (JG): We have the privilege of speaking with Ambassador Richard Butler. Why is Thirteen Days an important movie for the people to see? Richard Butler (RB): Jonathan, there have been two occasions which reveal the full power and horror of...
Mar 7, 2001 | Cuba, Japan, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., United Nations
In order to stimulate discussion of past nuclear crises and current nuclear risks, the Global Security Institute hosted a screening of Thirteen Days, the critically acclaimed film about the Cuban Missile Crisis, on March 7 at the United Nations. Participants...
Mar 7, 2001 | Global Terrorism, GSI News, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Jonathan Granoff (JG): We have the privilege of speaking with Ambassador Richard Butler. Why is Thirteen Days an important movie for the people to see?...
