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Global Security Institute Report: The NPT Atlanta Consultation

January 30, 2000 On January 26-27, 2000, the Middle Powers Initiative and The Carter Center co-sponsored the Atlanta Consultation on the Future of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The purpose was to serve as a forum for groups to share thoughts on the challenges facing...

Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Alan Cranston, Dr.Jane Goodall and 120 International Youth Leaders Call for Ban of Nuclear Weapons Testing

  October 06, 1999 The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Alan Cranston, Dr. Jane Goodall, and 120 youth leaders representing more than 50 countries will gather on the steps of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral at Noon today, October 6, 1999, to call for the US...

The Middle Power Initiative: Helping to Move the U.S. Forward – An Address to the State of the World Forum by Senator Douglas Roche, O.C – Transcript

October 3, 1999 Transcript A few weeks ago, I returned to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to see once again the effect of atomic bombing. It was a profound experience to speak to some of the survivors and see the museum displays of the horror and suffering. It is a visit I...

Nuclear Abolition Statement by International Civilian Leaders: An Assessment and an Appeal

The end of the Cold War has wrought a profound transformation of the international political and security arena. Idealogical confrontation has been supplanted by burgeoning global relations across every field of human endeavor. There is intense alienation but also...