Oct 2, 2017 | China, Denuclearization, Disarmament, France, GSI Programs, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, North Korea, NPT, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
Presently, the entire world is hostage to a nuclear crisis expressed in the language of war and destruction by the leaders of North Korea and the United States We can look over the abyss and the reality of the consequence of the uses of nuclear weapons strikes...
Apr 24, 2015 | China, France, Global Security Institute, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., UK, Weapons of Mass Destruction
At the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference later this month at the United Nations, the five nuclear weapon states recognized by the Treaty—the United States, Russia, Britain, France, and China—will come in for critical scrutiny from an international community...
Mar 11, 2013 | China, GSI Programs, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, Op Eds, Russia, U.S.
published in the Huffington Post Following the latest heightened, bellicose threats from North Korea, the UN Security Council unanimously passed a new round of sanctions on the already isolated country, aimed primarily at starving their growing missile program....
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...
Mar 1, 2011 | China, France, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
Japan Crisis Highlights the Dangers of Nuclearism Too many pundits on the airwaves and blogosphere are focused on the technological minutiae of what has– and continues– to go wrong at the Fukushima reactors in Japan. Too few are humble enough to...
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...
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...
Feb 10, 2007 | China, DPE, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Media, North Korea, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., United Nations, Weaponization of Space
Shopping alone in the red light district for a trusted partner is counterintuitive, when applied to international security issues, it becomes downright dangerous. Last year, the United States properly condemned North Korea for testing nuclear weapons. However,...
Apr 27, 2006 | China, DPE, India, Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., U.S. Congress
George W. Bush thought that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He was wrong. Now Mr. Bush has returned from India, and has proposed a nuclear deal that he believes will help both the Indian and American people. He is wrong again. Mr. Bush wants to...
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...
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...
Aug 6, 2005 | China, Denuclearization, DPE, France, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, India, Japan, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
Hiroshima, Japan This August 6, the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing, is a moment of shared lamentation in which more than 300 thousand souls of A-bomb victims and those who remain behind transcend the boundary between life and death to remember that day. It is...
Jul 18, 2005 | China, Disarmament, DPE, Global Security Institute, Robert Grey, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
By Bush administration officials’ accounts, there is no greater threat than nuclear terrorism, and no government takes that danger more seriously than ours does. Yet the administration’s insistence on getting its own way and refusal to discuss other...
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 24, 2005 | China, France, Iran, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations Security Council
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up The U.N. Secretary-General and Security Council should take on the job of blocking the spread of nuclear weapons if the troubled conference on the...
May 9, 2005 | China, Disarmament, Events, France, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Read the UN Press Briefing On May 9th, the Global Security Institute, in partnership with The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and the Simons...
Feb 18, 2005 | China, Disarmament, DPE, Dr. Jane Goodall, France, Global Security Institute, India, Israel, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, NPT, Pakistan, Rose Gottemoeller, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
Contact: Zachary Allen, Tel: 415-397-6760, zack@gsinstitute.org SAN FRANCISCO-Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter recently hosted a consultation of diplomats and government officials at The Carter Center. The Consultation sought to preserve and strengthen the Nuclear...
Nov 11, 2004 | China, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Remarks by M S Swaminathan President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World AffairsI. Guiding principles of ethical economics Spreading the concept...
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...
Apr 27, 2004 | Biothreats, China, DPE, France, India, Iraq, Israel, Libya, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., UK
Today, I want to comment especially on a number of the proposals President Bush made at the National Defense University on February 11 on proliferation. But before I do that, I should say that the present state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, the complex of...
Apr 22, 2003 | China, Denuclearization, France, Media, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Op Eds, Russia, U.S.
The Progressive April 22, 2003 The Bush administration wrongly believes it can eliminate the nuclear threat by wars of prevention. This policy may actually stimulate efforts by other countries to quickly obtain nuclear weapons. Earlier this spring, North Korea became...
Apr 19, 2002 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Henrik Salander, China, Denuclearization, France, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., Uncategorized, United Nations
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. Not only did the Nuclear Weapons...
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...
