Oct 4, 2013 | Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Russia, U.S.
With over a 100, 000 deaths and 2.5 million deaths, the Syrian civil war has shaken the Middle East and horrified the rest of the world. It has raised a lot of questions about the ethical and legal justification for a humanitarian intervention, the necessity to...
Sep 19, 2013 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Terrorism, Jonathan Granoff, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., United Nations
This article originally appeared in the InterPress Service HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, U.S., Sep 18 2013 (IPS) – Every nation in the world has been invited to participate at the highest political level in the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear...
Sep 13, 2013 | Biothreats, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations, Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2013/09/12/its-time-make-middle-east-wmd-free Eliminating the chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria through international cooperation and bringing Syria into full compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention would be a public good for...
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...
Mar 11, 2013 | China, GSI Programs, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, Op Eds, Russia, U.S.
published in the Huffington Post Following the latest heightened, bellicose threats from North Korea, the UN Security Council unanimously passed a new round of sanctions on the already isolated country, aimed primarily at starving their growing missile program....
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 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,...
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...
Aug 15, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Events, Global Security Institute, Iran, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, NPT, Rose Gottemoeller, U.S.
Law, US Security and Nuclear Weapons: The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty and Beyond Ambassador Rose Gottemoeller Ambassador Thomas Graham On July 20, 2012, a dynamic and informative teleconference was convened by the International Law Section of the American Bar...
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 –...
Jul 26, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Russia, U.S.
See below for two new pieces on START– the new treaty between the US and Russia which aims to reduce each country’s arsenal to no more than 1,550 deployed warheads– by GSI leadership. Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.’s letter to the editor on...
Jul 25, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Global Security Institute, Iran, Israel, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, NPT, Robert Grey, U.S.
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...
Apr 23, 2012 | Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
Forsaking Space Weapons Would Spur Peace Op-ed by Rhianna Tyson Tensions, it seems, between the US and Russia heighten daily. Increasingly hostile rhetoric is slung from both sides in a tactical volley best characterized as dumb and dumber. One side’s foolhardy plans...
Mar 1, 2011 | China, France, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
Japan Crisis Highlights the Dangers of Nuclearism Too many pundits on the airwaves and blogosphere are focused on the technological minutiae of what has– and continues– to go wrong at the Fukushima reactors in Japan. Too few are humble enough to...
Oct 23, 2010 | Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, U.S., United Nations
A stimulating panel, Humanitarian Law Versus Nuclear Weapons, took as its theme the international community’s reaffirmation earlier this year that law governing the conduct of warfare applies in the nuclear arena. The October 25 event at the UN was co-sponsored by the...
Aug 6, 2010 | Hiroshima, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter
August 6, 2010 Today marks the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the beginning of a new era for the human race. Our capacity for destruction must be met with our more powerful capacity to be truly human. As we commemorate this moment and take...
Jun 26, 2010 | Biothreats, Bipartisan Security Group, Disarmament and Peace Education, Global Terrorism, Iran, NATO, Newsletter, North Korea, NPT, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
A Message from the President DPE Activities – UN Panel Event: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century – Calling for Cooperation in Iran – The Middle East and the NPT – NPT Strategy Session – Principles, Values and Global Security...
Apr 14, 2010 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, NPT, Russia, U.S.
April 14, 2010 The Middle Powers Initiative, based on the results of the Atlanta Consultation III and the series of Article VI Forums, recommends the following policy options to the 2010 NPT Review Conference: 1. Disarmament: Reaffirm the unequivocal undertaking to...
Feb 2, 2010 | Bipartisan Security Group, Global Security Institute, Japan, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Robert Grey
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...
Jun 1, 2009 | Bipartisan Security Group, Disarmament and Peace Education, Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament, U.S. Congress, UK, United Nations
Contents: A Message from the President GSI Activities – “Voices of Experience,” UN Panel Event – Meeting with the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – Briefing at the UN: Human Development is National Security – Book Launch at the United...
Oct 24, 2008 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Henrik Salander, Biothreats, Cold War, Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, U.S., United Nations
A workshop of “Seizing the Moment: A One-Day Consultation on Breakthrough Measures to Build a New East West Consensus on Weapons of Mass Destruction and Disarmament” co-sponsored by the EastWest Institute, the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the British-American...
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 –...
