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A Personal Appeal from Jonathan Granoff

 “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...

Bipartisan Security Group Lauds Middle Power Initiative Statement on Iran

Dear friends, We would like to draw your attention to the recent declaration of the Middle Powers Initiative on the US/Iran confrontation.  Such a clear, powerful statement advocating for the resolution of differences through intensified diplomatic means is a welcomed...

Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century by Rhianna Tyson, Senior Officer of the Global Security Institute

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...

Restoring U.S. Nuclear-Free Leadership by Thomas Graham, Jr. and Max Kampelman

  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...

Putting Teeth in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Regime by IAEA Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei

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...

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Facing a Tough Road Ahead – For Immediate Release –

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...

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a Strategy for Effective Non-Proliferation – Speech by Ambassador Thomas Graham – Chatham House

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...

“Seven Sound Strategies? The President’s Non-Proliferation Proposals.” by Ambassador Jonathan Dean – Washington, D.C.

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...

Symposium on South Asia by Policy Institute for Religion and State: Discussion on Dangers of Nuclear Weapons to Region – Jonathan Granoff, Douglas B. Shaw, Laxminarayan Ramdas, Feroze Hassan Khan, Nayyer Ali

  South Asia experts, religious leaders, trade consultants and activists participated in a one-day symposium organized by the Policy Institute for Religion and State (PIRS) in Washington, D.C., on July 18 to discuss different issues confronting South Asia. Four...

The NPT: Crisis and Challenge Part I and Part II – Report and Assessment of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee Meeting – Summary

  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...

The NPT: Crisis and Challenge (Part l) – Report and Assessment of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee Meeting by Senator Douglas Roche, O.C. Chairman, Middle Power Initiative – U.N. New York

Global Security Institute April 8-19, 2002 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....

A)- Pentagon Report Reveals Dangerous Shift in U.S. Nuclear Doctrine B)- The Idea of Waging War is Taking Flight in Washington DC. Canada Must Protest, Says Douglas Roche, Former Chair of the UN Disarmament Committee

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...

Panel Challenges Nuclear Arms Apathy – Weapons: Discussion, Movie Intended to Raise Awareness of Continuing Threat to Safety by Linh Tat – The Daily Bruin, UCLA

April 11, 2000 The Cold War may be over, but the impending threat of nuclear warfare continues to loom over us today, said activists against nuclear engineering during a panel discussion Sunday night at Sproul Hall. Global Security Institute, an organization that...