Feb 16, 2001 | China, India, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, Senator Ed Markey, U.S., U.S. Congress
GSI Report February 16, 2001 The Global Security Institute had a smooth transition of leadership in the wake of founder Senator Alan Cranston’s death on New Year’s Eve. The Board of Directors elected Jonathan Granoff as GSI President, and Kim Cranston,...
Feb 8, 2001 | China, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Ed Markey
The Washington Post February 8, 2001 On the long bus ride back from their weekend retreat in Pennsylvania, despondent Democrats watched “Thirteen Days,” the somber and gripping dramatization of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. After it was over, they...
Jan 31, 2001 | Events, Global Security Institute, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S. Congress, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Thirteen Days, the critically acclaimed dramatization of the Cuban Missile Crisis staring Kevin Costner, will be the first film screened by President...
Jan 7, 2001 | Cold War, Global Terrorism, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
January 7, 2001 If the last century raised the awful prospect of nuclear Armageddon, the new one offers the world an opportunity to move back from the brink of destruction. Former President George Bush had the good fortune to preside over the end of the Cold...
Jan 7, 2001 | Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Op Eds, U.S., U.S. Congress
January 7, 2001 WASHINGTON: Much media attention has been focused on cabinet selections and partisan politics. But it has become clear that any legislative success in the 107th Congress will require a coalition of centrists from both sides of the aisle. Nowhere is...
Jan 3, 2001 | Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., United Nations
107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 17 Recognizing the security interests of the United States in furthering complete nuclear disarmament. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2001 Ms. WOOLSEY (for herself, Mr. FILNER, Mr. HINCHEY, Ms. LEE, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr....
Dec 31, 2000 | Jonathan Granoff, Media, NATO, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
GSI Report December 31, 2000 Without first increasing public awareness of nuclear dangers, progress in eliminating them is unlikely. For several years, Senator Cranston and Jonathan Granoff have worked extensively with veteran Sixty Minutes II producer George Crile,...
Dec 31, 2000 | DPE, Global Terrorism, Iraq, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation
U.S. General Charles Horner, who commanded Allied Forces in the Gulf War declared in 1997 in an address to the War College, “I predict that a nuclear weapon will be exploded on the territory of the U.S. in the next few years.” Former Secretary of Defense...
Nov 18, 2000 | Cold War, Global Terrorism, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
Saturday, November 18, 2000 LOS ALTOS HILLS: Former U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston has become an abolitionist. With the same relentless, disciplined energy that characterized his 40-year career in Democratic politics, Cranston is leading a global crusade for the abolition of...
Aug 11, 2000 | China, Cold War, DPE, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO — A highly classified new report by the nation’s key intelligence agencies issued Thursday raises new questions about the efficacy of President Clinton’s proposed missile defense system as a deterrent to nuclear conflict....
Aug 11, 2000 | China, Cold War, Global Terrorism, Iran, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO — A highly classified new report by the nation’s key intelligence agencies issued Thursday raises new questions about the efficacy of President Clinton’s proposed missile defense system as a deterrent to nuclear conflict. According to...
Jun 21, 2000 | Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, U.S.
Wednesday, June 21, 2000 We come together today from various religions in the common conviction that God acts and speaks into human history. This is the character of the revealed religions we represent. Our faith is rooted in God’s self-revelation, not human...
Jun 4, 2000 | China, Cold War, Media, NATO, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
June 4, 2000 When Air Force One touched down in Moscow yesterday, nuclear politics again took center stage, just as they did so often during the Cold War. Nearly three decades ago, the Nixon administration and the Brezhnev regime came to agreement on a “big...
Jun 4, 2000 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
YOU ARE POINTING a loaded machine gun at someone just a few feet away. His loaded machine gun is aimed at your chest. You’ve been doing this for 50 years, and now your adversary is weaker and less bellicose — but you still aren’t sure if you can...
May 16, 2000 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
May 16, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO: On Thursday May 18th, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament from 1994-1997 and the President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) will be at...
Apr 25, 2000 | China, India, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, U.S., United Nations
Mr. President, Let me begin by congratulating you on your election as President of this Conference. Its success lies in your hands and I can assure you of the support of the Swedish delegation in this important endeavour. Sweden fully subscribes to the European...
Apr 11, 2000 | China, Cold War, France, India, Israel, Media, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
April 11, 2000 The Cold War may be over, but the impending threat of nuclear warfare continues to loom over us today, said activists against nuclear engineering during a panel discussion Sunday night at Sproul Hall. Global Security Institute, an organization that...
Apr 11, 2000 | China, Cold War, Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
April 11, 2000 The end of the Cold War did little to reduce the danger of nuclear weapons, according to the participants in a panel discussion sponsored by the Center for International Security and Arms Control. In the discussion titled “So You Think Nuclear...
Apr 10, 2000 | Cold War, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S., Uncategorized
1)- April 10, 2000 Long after Cold War, The Bomb Chills As TV audiences gathered to watch Sunday’s all-star cast perform a remake of the 1962 Cold War film Fail-Safe, some were drawn to the project’s star power (George Clooney and an A-list of...
Mar 31, 2000 | Denuclearization, Global Terrorism, Iraq, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, Weaponization of Space
March 31, 2000 “Fail Safe” Sparks the Anti-Nuclear Movement 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...
Mar 31, 2000 | Cold War, Disarmament, Events, Global Security Institute, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, Senator Ed Markey, U.S.
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.” Groups such as...
Mar 28, 2000 | Cold War, Global Terrorism, India, Iraq, Media, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
Tuesday, March 28, 2000 “Oh gosh, I forgot, we do have 6,000 strategic nuclear warheads of our own at a high state of alert, 15 minutes away from blowing up any city in the world. But our nuclear bombs are carried by ‘Peacekeeper’ missiles and are...
Mar 18, 2000 | China, Cold War, France, Global Terrorism, Iraq, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
A major U.S. city is the most likely target of a nuclear attack by a terrorist group, a prominent nuclear disarmament group is warning. The Global Security Institute, headed by former U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston, is hoping to jar the public from its post-Cold War...
Mar 14, 2000 | Cold War, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
Remarks by Senator Alan Cranston The threat posed by nuclear weapons the issue that brings us together surpasses in a way all others. Many issues are important. But if we blow ourselves up in a nuclear holocaust, no other issue will matter. It was fruitless to...
Mar 14, 2000 | DPE, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
Thirty years ago — March 5, 1970 — the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) entered into force. The countries that negotiated the NPT had clear and important goals. They wanted a safer, more secure world in which states not possessing...
Feb 14, 2000 | Denuclearization, DPE, GSI Programs, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
Every five years, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) comes up for reassessment by the countries that have signed it. This is the treaty that provides for international restraints (and inspections) on nuclear programs… It covers not only the nuclear...
