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A Time For Serious Thinking by Jonathan Granoff

Dear Friends, This is a time in which serious thinking is needed. Spectacle is interesting entertainment, but only for a short while. It is insufficient for responsible governance of international security issues. The recent G7 Summit, which brought allies to...

Today’s Nuclear Crisis, Perspective and Moving Forward

  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...

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...

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...

Addressing the Nuclear Threat: Op-Ed by Jonathan Granoff – Special to the Courier-Journal

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...

GSI and BSG Events in Washington DC: Consultation with Members of Congress and a Showcase Panel at the American Bar Association

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...

GSI eNewsletter: January 17, 2007

Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is a pleasure to share “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons”, an op-ed by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn which was published in The Wall Street Journal on January 4, 2007. It is a seminal document in...

Nobel Laureates Call for Nuclear Abolition Through Cooperative Security – Event Report by Rhianna Tyson – Campidoglio, Rome, Italy

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...

Global Security Institute Experts Testify Before Congress – Event Report by Adam Nester – Washington, DC

  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...

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...

Space Security: Core Issues and Questions – Event Report by John Koogler, GSI Sarah Estabrooks, Project Ploughshares – United Nations

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...

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...

A Promising Direction for G8 Leadership by Rose Gottemoeller

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...

Kofi A. Annan: Break the Nuclear Deadlock by Kofi A. Annan – International Herald Tribune

About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up   Regrettably, there are times when multilateral forums tend merely to reflect, rather than mend, deep rifts over how to confront the threats we...