Jun 21, 2015 | India, Inspiration, Jonathan Granoff, Photo Galleries, United Nations, Video Blog
June 21, 2015, the United Nations hosted the first ever International Day of Yoga. The official Indian government estimate cites an audience size in India alone of at least 500 million people and global participation of nearly 2 billion in over 190 countries and more...
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...
Nov 26, 2012 | India, Inspiration, Jonathan Granoff, United Nations
(L-R): Anwar ul Haque Chishty, Jonathan Granoff, Salman Chishty, Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, and Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri (photography credits: Jay Mandal) (UN Headquarters, New York): On the occasion of India’s Presidency of the UN Security Council, the...
Jul 26, 2012 | Bipartisan Security Group, Disarmament and Peace Education, DPE, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, India, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Message from the President MPI Activities – New Brief: “A Global Law to Ban Nuclear Weapons” – Ottawa Seminar – World Capital Tour – InterAction Council – Swiss Seminar on Irreversibility – Geneva Consultation –...
Sep 25, 2008 | Disarmament, Global Security Institute, India, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, United Nations
Dear friends, As the Global Security Institute prepares for a new season of activities to advance nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, we would like to pause and share a few words in memory of Dr. Alan Phillips. Dr. Phillips was an outstanding citizen, physician...
Aug 25, 2008 | Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, India, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, NPT, U.S.
Below is the text of an open letter to the Foreign Ministers of the Nuclear Suppliers Group regarding the role of the NSG in the pending nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India. We urge all of our concerned friends and...
Jul 28, 2008 | Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, India, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament, U.S., U.S. Congress
Contents What’s Next for India’s Nuclear Trade Future: Press Briefing on Key Issues before the IAEA, NSG and US Congress MPI Chairman Calls on World Leaders to Stop US/India Trade Deal PNND Notes, 2008 edition, now available Video from the...
Jul 4, 2008 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Canada, Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, India, Iran, Japan, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Robert Grey
Dear friends, July 4 reminds me that ‘miracles really do happen in the course of human events.’ Below are some positive reports, a bit short of the miraculous but valuable all the same. On June 9-10, in New Delhi, India, there was a small high-level...
May 25, 2008 | Bipartisan Security Group, Canada, Christie Brinkley, Global Security Institute, India, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, NPT, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, U.S.
Contents: 1. GSI Office Move 2. DPE Activities – India Celebrates 20 years of the Rajiv Gandhi Plan – Overcoming Nuclear Dangers Conference, Harvard University – GSI Board Member Christie Brinkley Receives Smart Cookie Award from Condé Nast –...
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...
Apr 8, 2008 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Biothreats, Cold War, DPE, India, Iran, Israel, Media, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., U.S. National Security
Washington Times April 2, 2008 After a long dry spell, the seeds planted by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in 1985 and Reykjavik in 1986, appear to be bearing fruit. Their declaration in Geneva that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must...
Jan 16, 2008 | Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, India, Media, Robert Grey, U.S., U.S. Congress
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 16, 2008 Contact: Kevin Davis, Bipartisan Security Group, (202) 543-9017 bsg@gsinstitute.org www.bipartisansecuritygroup.org www.responsiblenucleartrade.com Arms Control Experts, Environmental Activists, Consumer Advocates, Religious...
Nov 7, 2007 | France, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, India, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Op Eds, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events GSI eNewsletter Click here for the original publication By Jonathan Granoff Special to The Courier-Journal Religious leaders gathering this week at the Festival of Faiths...
Nov 19, 2006 | Douglas Roche, Events, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, India, Iran, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
United Nations, NY – On October 11, 2006 a panel convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York entitled The United Nations and Security. The purpose of the panel was to bring experts and practitioners in the fields of development, human rights, gender...
Oct 11, 2006 | Douglas Roche, Events, Global Security Institute, India, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
United Nations, NY – On October 11, 2006 a panel convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York entitled The United Nations and Security. The purpose of the panel was to bring experts and practitioners in the fields of development, human rights, gender...
Sep 26, 2006 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Global Terrorism, India, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., U.S. Congress
Washington, DC – On September 26, 2006 a hearing was held by the in House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations entitled “Weapons of Mass Destruction: Current Nuclear...
May 9, 2006 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Disarmament, DPE, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
A senior American diplomat with decades of international disarmament experience called on the United States to lead the world toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Speaking to a Los Alamos arms control committee this week, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr....
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...
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...
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...
Mar 28, 2005 | DPE, Egypt, India, Iran, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
Renewal talks for the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are scheduled for May, yet the United States and other nuclear powers seem indifferent to its fate. This is remarkable, considering the addition of Iran and North Korea as states that either possess or seek...
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 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 | Bipartisan Security Group, India, Iran, Libya, Media, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan
April 27, 2004 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,...
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...
Sep 11, 2003 | Denuclearization, India, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, Pakistan, Russia
In Memoriam: Anna Lindh, Foreign Minister of Sweden Press Release September 11, 2003 The world has lost one its brightest lights. Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh passed away from multiple stab wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant yesterday. She was a tireless...
