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 17, 2002 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Cold War, Denuclearization, Dr. Jane Goodall, Jonathan Granoff, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, U.S.
HAVERFORD, PA: In a two-day event, organized by the Global Security Institute, convened by primatologist and GSI Advisor Jane Goodall, and chaired by GSI President Jonathan Granoff, more than 800 people gathered at Haverford College, near Philadelphia, to focus on how...
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...
Dec 4, 2001 | Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Media, U.S. Congress, Weaponization of Space
December 04, 2001 PHILADELPHIA: On the eve of the Bush Administration’s December 3 test of an anti-ballistic missile interceptor, a group of experts gathered in Philadelphia’s Friends Conference Center for a conference addressing the implications of...
Dec 4, 2001 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Media, North Korea, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
December 4, 2001 PHILADELPHIA: On the eve of the Bush Administration’s December 3 test of an anti-ballistic missile interceptor, a group of experts gathered in Philadelphia’s Friends Conference Center for a conference addressing the implications of missile...
Dec 4, 2001 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Canada, Douglas Roche, Global Terrorism, Jonathan Granoff, U.S., Weaponization of Space
PHILADELPHIA: On the eve of the Bush Administration’s December 3 test of an anti-ballistic missile interceptor, a group of experts gathered in Philadelphia’s Friends Conference Center for a conference addressing the implications of missile defense on the...
Dec 1, 2001 | Denuclearization, Douglas Roche, Global Terrorism, Media, NPT, Russia, U.S., United Nations
14. Reducing Nuclear Danger: Priority Points 14.1A number of delegations referred to a recent report, “Reducing Nuclear Danger,” published by the U.N.’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters <...
Nov 12, 2001 | Global Terrorism, Iraq, Russia, United Nations
VIENNA, Nov. 10 – In the last year, there have been dozens of violations of nuclear security rules in Russia and at least one loss of fissile material; Taliban emissaries have tried to recruit Russian scientists, and terrorists have tried to stake out a...
Oct 21, 2001 | China, Europe, Global Terrorism, India, Media, Russia, U.S.
October 21, 2001 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. Despite many serious...
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 14, 2001 | 9-11, Ambassador Dhanapala, Denuclearization, Disarmament, GSI News, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, United Nations
AboutGSI Who We Are What You CanDo Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter SignUp UNITED NATIONS — Delivering a clarion call for nuclear disarmament, former US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara was the focal point of...
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...
Oct 1, 2001 | 9-11, Biothreats, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Mr. President, [Mayor Giuliani,] Distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On Friday night, the Security Council adopted unanimously a broad...
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 23, 2001 | Global Terrorism, India, Media, NPT, Pakistan, U.S.
Sunday, 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...
Sep 21, 2001 | 9-11, Cold War, Denuclearization, Global Terrorism, U.S.
Disaster Spotlights Need for International Action 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...
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:...
Aug 11, 2001 | China, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, Russia, U.S., United Nations, Weaponization of Space
Missile Defense a Threat By Jonathan Dean and Jonathan Granoff Chicago Sun Times Commentary August 11, 2001 In their July 22 meeting in Genoa, Italy, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to consider the topics of national missile defense and...
