Japan


204 Japanese Legislators Support Obama’s Vision of Nuclear Disarmament

Obama Opponents’ Arguments on Nuclear Policy Rebutted       PNND Member Hideo Hiraoka February 22, 2010 PNND member Hideo Hiraoka and 203 other Japanese legislators sent a letter to US President Obama supporting his stated policy objectives of moving...

GSI eNewsletter: July 4, 2008

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...

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...

GSI eNewsletter: December 11, 2007

Contents: 1. A Message from the President 2. PNND Activities – Five Women Leaders elected Co-Presidents of PNND – Christie Brinkley and parliamentarians working to abolish nuclear weapons – Preventing Nuclear Genocide, PNND address by Senator Roméo...

Peace Declaration on the 60th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima – Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba – Speech Delivered to the Annual Peace Memorial Ceremony

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...

GSI Hosts a Screening of “Thirteen Days” at the United Nations / Granoff Interviews Theodore Sorensen, Jayantha Dhanapala and Richard Butler about “Thirteen Days”

  In order to stimulate discussion of past nuclear crises and current nuclear risks, the Global Security Institute hosted a screening of Thirteen Days, the critically acclaimed film about the Cuban Missile Crisis, on March 7 at the United Nations. Participants...