Apr 29, 2015 | Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Nuclear Proliferation, Op Eds
Huffington Post on April 29, 2015. A deal with verifiable measure that helps prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for taking steps to help it normalize its relationships with the rest of the world is a very good deal. Lifting sanctions will help...
Aug 29, 2013 | Biothreats, Human Rights, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Op Eds, United Nations
We can hear the drum beats of war again. Syria certainly appears to have committed heinous acts. The rebels may also have done so as well. Chemical weapons have not been the only horrific means of injuring innocent people. Tens of thousands have died and millions of...
Nov 30, 2012 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Op Eds
Listening to today’s candidates –at any level — one would not know that, historically, Republicans have been instrumental in advancing arms control, nonproliferation, and nuclear disarmament. That is, until the recent Bush administration. In fact,...
Oct 12, 2007 | Christie Brinkley, GSI Programs, Iraq, Nuclear Proliferation, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, United Nations
About PNND People of PNND Become A Member Directories News Room Events Primary Documents Newsletter Archives Arabic Dansk Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Japanese Nederlands Russian Svensk US Supermodel Christie Brinkley joins PNND Co-Presidents at the...
May 4, 2007 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Biothreats, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Global Security Institute, Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, North Korea, NPT, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Photo Galleries, Speeches & Presentations, U.S., U.S. Congress
Photo Gallery Overview On May 3 and 4, 2007, a delegation comprised of Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., Chairman of the Bipartisan Security Group, Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, and Dr. Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass...
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 25, 2006 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Hiroshima, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Nagasaki, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up It is a pleasure for me to deliver the 2006 Karlsruhe Lecture. My wife asked me a few days ago why I was so excited to be visiting a group of...
Oct 11, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Events, Global Security Institute, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., United Nations, Weaponization of Space
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up United Nations, New York – On October 11, 2005, The Global Security Institute and the (Space Security Index (SSI)) co-hosted an event at the...
May 26, 2005 | Cold War, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, U.S., Weaponization of Space
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up A metaphorical “nuclear option” – the cutoff of debate in the Senate on judicial nominees – has just been defused, but a...
May 10, 2005 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Disarmament, DPE, Global Security Institute, Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, NPT, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S., United Nations
“The United States could not preach temperance from a barstool”, United States Congressman Ed Markey said yesterday at a Headquarters press conference, referring to the United States’ interest in developing a nuclear...
Nov 12, 2004 | Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, GSI News, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, News and Updates, North Korea, UK, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Final Statement of the 5th Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates Rome, Italy November 12, 2004 Under the high patronage of the President of the...
Nov 11, 2004 | DPE, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Iraq, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Russia, U.S.
Dialogue between Gunnar Westberg, MD, Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) & Alex Rosen, Medical Student representative to the Board of IPPNW G: We are sometimes told that terrorism is the greatest threat in...
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...
Oct 28, 2004 | Biothreats, Global Security Institute, GSI News, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, U.S., United Nations
The inspection disarmament efforts through the UN system worked in Iraq. The invasion was not necessary. Billions of dollars have been squandered, thousands of lives and limbs lost, and the people of Iraq live in increasing poverty and insecurity. Did this happen...
Jun 30, 2004 | 9-11, DPE, Global Terrorism, Iraq, Senator Alan Cranston, United Nations
As we witness the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq, I wonder what my father, the late Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., would have thought about the situation there. A few days before he passed away in December 2000, he completed a book entitled “The Sovereignty...
Jun 25, 2004 | Denuclearization, Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Security Institute, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nuclear Proliferation, Senator Alan Cranston
June 30, 2004 Dear Friends: It is hard to believe that it will be five years ago this November when my father, Alan Cranston, called his friend Mikhail Gorbachev and asked him to be the first member of the Global Security Institute’s Board of Advisors. With...
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 27, 2004 | Ambassador Henrik Salander, Biothreats, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, U.S.
About BSG BSG Experts News Room BSG Publications Newsletter Sign Up Remarks by Ambassador Henrik Salander, Secretary-General, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) I want to thank the Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation for including me in this panel. I...
Apr 25, 2004 | Global Security Institute, Iraq, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, Newsletter, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation
April 7, 2004 Dear Friends: One of the goals of the Global Security Institute is to influence the nuclear weapons policies of NATO governments. We have had some recent progress in that regard. The Middle Powers Initiative recently prepared a policy paper for the...
Apr 21, 2004 | DPE, Global Security Institute, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Robert Grey, U.S., United Nations
People make mistakes. We should not be too surprised or dismayed at the failure of intelligence regarding weapons in Iraq. We now know that blood and treasure is being spent based on speculation or evidence ignored. David Kay’s testimony that Iraq did not pose a...
Dec 13, 2003 | Bipartisan Security Group, Iraq, Media, Robert Grey, United Nations
December 13, 2003 In his memoir, A World Transformed, former President George Bush in discussing the Gulf War made the following observation: ”Trying to eliminate Saddam would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably...
Dec 13, 2003 | Bipartisan Security Group, Iraq, Media, Robert Grey, U.S.
Chicago Sun Times December 13, 2003 In his memoir, A World Transformed, former President George Bush in discussing the Gulf War made the following observation: ”Trying to eliminate Saddam would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending...
Oct 20, 2003 | Denuclearization, Iran, Iraq, Media, North Korea
A Nuclear Arms Race By James Goodby and Kenneth Weisbrode The Washington Times October 20, 2003 It is time to admit that Iran will follow North Korea’s example and become a de facto nuclear-weapon state in the absence of a U.S. preventive military attack or a...
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...
Aug 22, 2003 | India, Iraq, Media, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Robert Grey, U.S., United Nations
August 22, 2003 In Memoriam: Sergio Vieira de Mello and Arthur Helton Two great men, Sergio Vieira de Mello and Arthur Helton, were among the 20 people who died in the explosion at the United Nations in Iraq this week. Sergio Vieira de Mello, United Nations High...
Jun 9, 2003 | Biothreats, Bipartisan Security Group, Iraq, Media, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation
International Herald Tribune Monday, June 9, 2003 Nothing but trouble WASHINGTON, DC–Even as U.S. forces struggle to consolidate victory in a war justified largely to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the White House is preparing to build and test new...