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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
May 2, 2005 | DPE, Global Security Institute, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
As the review conference of the Nonproliferation Treaty convenes in New York this month, we can only be appalled at the indifference of the United States and the other nuclear powers. This indifference is remarkable, considering the addition of Iran and North Korea as...
Mar 28, 2005 | DPE, Egypt, India, Iran, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
Renewal talks for the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are scheduled for May, yet the United States and other nuclear powers seem indifferent to its fate. This is remarkable, considering the addition of Iran and North Korea as states that either possess or seek...
Feb 19, 2005 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Dr. Jane Goodall, Inspiration, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Atlanta, GA — When you hear “Jane Goodall,” think of a growing worldwide movement to abolish nuclear weapons. Why? Because, Dr....
Feb 18, 2005 | China, Disarmament, DPE, Dr. Jane Goodall, France, Global Security Institute, India, Israel, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, NPT, Pakistan, Rose Gottemoeller, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
Contact: Zachary Allen, Tel: 415-397-6760, zack@gsinstitute.org SAN FRANCISCO-Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter recently hosted a consultation of diplomats and government officials at The Carter Center. The Consultation sought to preserve and strengthen the Nuclear...
Nov 11, 2004 | China, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, 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 Remarks by M S Swaminathan President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World AffairsI. Guiding principles of ethical economics Spreading the concept...
Nov 11, 2004 | Cold War, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, U.S., United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Remarks by Mary Ellen McNish Secretary General, American Friends Service Committee Before I begin my short remarks I feel I must, as an American,...
Nov 11, 2004 | DPE, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Iraq, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Russia, U.S.
Dialogue between Gunnar Westberg, MD, Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) & Alex Rosen, Medical Student representative to the Board of IPPNW G: We are sometimes told that terrorism is the greatest threat in...
Nov 11, 2004 | 9-11, DPE, Global Terrorism, GSI Programs, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., UK, United Nations
Dear Friends, On 11th September, people everywhere were shocked into the realization that we live in a dangerous world. Those who lost loved ones, and the American people, had our sympathy. But how did the American Administration respond? Tragically, very badly. There...
Nov 11, 2004 | Cold War, DPE, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., United Nations
International terrorism and nuclear weapons are two areas of the greatest concern to world security at the present time. President George W. Bush said the following about nuclear weapons: “They are the pre-eminent threat to international security.” With...
