Dec 5, 2018 | Bipartisan Security Group, Nonpartisan Security Group, Russia, U.S.
A group of cybersecurity, national security and legal experts [including NSG member Suzanne Spaulding,] is warning that Russia’s efforts to weaken America’s democratic institutions aren’t limited to elections — but also extend to the U.S. justice system. “While we all...
Sep 14, 2018 | Nonpartisan Security Group, U.S.
Describing himself as a “skunk at the garden party,” former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry found himself in San Francisco speaking to an older, eager crowd Thursday afternoon. Throughout the event, Kerry heavily emphasized his concerns about climate change and the...
Sep 12, 2018 | Denuclearization, Global Security Institute, News and Updates, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Russia, U.S.
In one of his most dangerous actions yet, the U.S. President has announced plans to withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Two world leaders who negotiated the Treaty with President Reagan, have had strong words in two...
Jul 30, 2018 | GSI News, Iran, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
by Jonathan Granoff published in Newsweek. There are many reasons not to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House, and many reasons why Congressional Democrats and Republicans are panning the idea. Trump’s tweet lashing out at Iran hasn’t...
Jun 27, 2018 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Books, GSI News, News and Updates, Newsletter, Russia, U.S.
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. was involved in the negotiation of every international arms control and non-proliferation agreement from 1970 to 1997, including the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT Treaties), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START Treaties),...
Jun 27, 2018 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Cold War, Denuclearization, Douglas Roche, GSI News, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, North Korea, U.S.
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...
May 25, 2018 | Nonpartisan Security Group, U.S.
In February, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats deemed cyberwarfare the No. 1 threat to the United States. Yet this month, new national security adviser John Bolton decided to eliminate the cybersecurity coordinator position on the National Security...
May 15, 2018 | Iran, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter, Op Eds, U.S., United Nations
By Jonathan Granoff Published in The Hill The Trump Administration has just walked away from the United States’ commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known in the American media as “the Iran Deal.” But it’s not an...
Oct 2, 2017 | China, Denuclearization, Disarmament, France, GSI Programs, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, North Korea, NPT, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
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...
Oct 1, 2017 | Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter, North Korea, U.S.
1. Talk Nation: U.S. and North Korean Relations, featuring Jonathan Granoff 2. Octavian Report: Why North Korea is not the real nuclear danger
May 18, 2017 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Policy Briefs and Reports, U.S.
In 1996, the International Court of Justice issued an opinion that the use of nuclear weapons is scarcely reconcilable with international humanitarian law and concluded that nations have an obligation to pursue good-faith negotiations leading to disarmament. Not only...
Aug 3, 2015 | Human Rights, Iran, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., United Nations
This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post, August 3, 2015. We should be grateful to the diplomats for ensuring no further proliferation of nuclear weapons in a volatile region. The Iran Deal demonstrates that when powerful nations identify a common...
May 2, 2015 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., United Nations
The below article, by Jonathan Granoff, was originally published in the Huffington Post on May 2, 2015. This month at the United Nations, 190 nations will gather to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which constrains the spread of nuclear weapons and...
Apr 24, 2015 | China, France, Global Security Institute, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., UK, Weapons of Mass Destruction
At the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference later this month at the United Nations, the five nuclear weapon states recognized by the Treaty—the United States, Russia, Britain, France, and China—will come in for critical scrutiny from an international community...
Apr 9, 2015 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, NPT, Op Eds, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Rose Gottemoeller, U.S., United Nations
The below article, regarding Pope Francis’ recent statement and the April 9 event which GSI co-hosted with the Holy See to highlight it, was originally published by TIME on Friday, April 10. The original version can be found here. By Elizabeth Dias –...
Mar 16, 2015 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Op Eds, Russia, U.S.
The original article, which was published on March 16, 2015 in Russian by the TASS News Agency of Russia, can be found here. Below english translation provided by TASS News Agency of Russia. NEW YORK, March 16 /TASS/. Time for “new realism” has...
May 14, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, U.S., United Nations
opening remarks by Jonathan Granoff at the event “Nuclear Weapons and the Moral Compass” co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Philippines and the Global Security Institute United Nations Trusteeship Council Chamber April 30, 2014 Sometimes a...
Nov 14, 2013 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Events, GSI Programs, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Grey, U.S., United Nations
“There is nothing else like it,” said senior advisor to the U.N. Foundation Gillian M. Sorensen of the United Nations at the International Law Society’s Distinguished Speaker Series event held on Wednesday, November 14th in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom on Widener...
Oct 28, 2013 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Disarmament, Events, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, U.S., United Nations
On October 28, 2013, the Global Security Institute hosted a luncheon event at the United Nations titled “Nuclear Weapons: Threats and Solutions,” featuring UN High Representative Angela Kane and former US Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. The event was co-hosted by the...
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...
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...
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 | 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...
