Mar 29, 2006 | China, Cold War, Global Terrorism, Iran, Israel, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, U.S., United Nations
A Dangerous Deal with India by Jimmy Carter The Washington Post March 29, 2006 During the past five years the United States has abandoned many of the nuclear arms control agreements negotiated since the administration of Dwight Eisenhower. This change in...
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...
Feb 6, 2006 | Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., United Nations, Weapons of Mass Destruction
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up WASHINGTON – State Department officials appointed by President Bush have sidelined key career weapons experts and replaced them with less...
Dec 30, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Cold War, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
The United States and Russia maintain thousands of nuclear warheads on long-range ballistic missiles on 15-minute alert. Once launched, they cannot be recalled, and they will strike their targets in roughly 30 minutes. Fifteen years after the end of the Cold...
Dec 10, 2005 | Cold War, DPE, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, News and Updates, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit
Oslo, Norway – Fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, the risk of nuclear disaster is as great as ever with terrorists zealously pursuing atomic weapons, chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei said Saturday in accepting the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize....
Nov 2, 2005 | China, Cold War, DPE, France, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Jonathan Granoff, Nagasaki, NPT, Russia, U.S.
“The more we build these weapons to keep us safe, the less safe we become.” These words came from Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute, an agency committed to the elimination of nuclear weapons, to students and community...
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...
Aug 23, 2005 | Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Media, North Korea
The Process in Place By Rose Gottemoeller The New York Times Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Washington – Negotiators in Beijing have left the most recent round of the six-nation talks on stability and nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula confronted with a North...
Aug 15, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Iran, Media, NPT
Iran: A Crisis Of Choice By Amb. Thomas Graham, Jr. Tompaine.com August 15, 2005 The controversy over the Iranian nuclear program is neither a new issue nor is it a crisis. But if the United States does not handle this issue carefully, the result could be that Iran...
Aug 10, 2005 | Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter
Contents: 1. MPI Chairman delivers address for 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing, Hiroshima, Japan 2. MPI Chairman interview on Australian Broadcast Radio 3. Texts of testimonies by Hiroshima Mayor Akiba and Nagasaki 4. Mayor Itoh to the International Court of...
Aug 6, 2005 | China, Denuclearization, DPE, France, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, India, Japan, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
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...
Aug 6, 2005 | DPE, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, U.S.
In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military...
Jul 18, 2005 | China, Disarmament, DPE, Global Security Institute, Robert Grey, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
By Bush administration officials’ accounts, there is no greater threat than nuclear terrorism, and no government takes that danger more seriously than ours does. Yet the administration’s insistence on getting its own way and refusal to discuss other...
Jul 8, 2005 | Media, Russia
A Promising Direction for G8 Leadership By Rose Gottemoeller The Moscow Times July 8, 2005 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...
Jun 30, 2005 | China, Cold War, Disarmament, France, Global Security Institute, Nagasaki, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., UK
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we’ve come. His counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe...
Jun 8, 2005 | Bipartisan Security Group, Canada, China, Cold War, Disarmament, Events, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, India, Iran, North Korea, Rose Gottemoeller, Russia, Uncategorized, United Nations, Weapons of Mass Destruction
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...
May 30, 2005 | Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Iran, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation
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...
May 27, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Egypt, Iran, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., Weapons of Mass Destruction
About BSG BSG Experts News Room BSG Publications Newsletter Sign Up The danger of a nuclear holocaust may never have been greater, yet the 188 signatories to the global pact against nuclear weapons have rarely been more divided, arms experts and diplomats said. Friday...
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 25, 2005 | Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Iran, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S.
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up The United States is sending the wrong signal to signatories of the global pact against nuclear weapons by backing out of previous arms control...
May 24, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Disarmament, DPE, Global Security Institute, Iran, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., United Nations
United Nations – U.S. and NATO nuclear policies are immoral, dangerous and destructive for the global nuclear non-proliferation regime, a former Defense Secretary from the Vietnam War era, Robert McNamara, said on Tuesday. McNamara, who spoke at a conference...
May 24, 2005 | Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Iran, NATO, North Korea, 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 Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said Tuesday he feared the U.N. nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference will...
May 24, 2005 | China, France, Iran, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations Security Council
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up The U.N. Secretary-General and Security Council should take on the job of blocking the spread of nuclear weapons if the troubled conference on the...
May 17, 2005 | Cold War, DPE, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation
Fifty years ago, I joined Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and eight others in signing a manifesto warning of the dire consequences of nuclear war. This statement, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, was Einstein’s final public act. He died shortly after signing...
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...
May 9, 2005 | China, Disarmament, Events, France, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Read the UN Press Briefing On May 9th, the Global Security Institute, in partnership with The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and the Simons...
