Oct 3, 2000 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Media, U.S.
October 3, 2000 The end of the Cold War has offered the most promising opportunity since the advent of nuclear arms in 1945 to free the world from nuclear danger. Instead we witness the spread of nuclear weapon technology and a deepening crisis of the nuclear...
Aug 11, 2000 | China, Cold War, DPE, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO — A highly classified new report by the nation’s key intelligence agencies issued Thursday raises new questions about the efficacy of President Clinton’s proposed missile defense system as a deterrent to nuclear conflict....
Aug 11, 2000 | China, Cold War, Global Terrorism, Iran, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO — A highly classified new report by the nation’s key intelligence agencies issued Thursday raises new questions about the efficacy of President Clinton’s proposed missile defense system as a deterrent to nuclear conflict. According to...
Jun 21, 2000 | Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, U.S.
Wednesday, June 21, 2000 We come together today from various religions in the common conviction that God acts and speaks into human history. This is the character of the revealed religions we represent. Our faith is rooted in God’s self-revelation, not human...
Jun 4, 2000 | China, Cold War, Media, NATO, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
June 4, 2000 When Air Force One touched down in Moscow yesterday, nuclear politics again took center stage, just as they did so often during the Cold War. Nearly three decades ago, the Nixon administration and the Brezhnev regime came to agreement on a “big...
Jun 4, 2000 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, China, Denuclearization, Iran, Iraq, Media, North Korea, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
June 4, 2000 YOU ARE POINTING a loaded machine gun at someone just a few feet away. His loaded machine gun is aimed at your chest. You’ve been doing this for 50 years, and now your adversary is weaker and less bellicose — but you still aren’t sure if...
Jun 4, 2000 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
YOU ARE POINTING a loaded machine gun at someone just a few feet away. His loaded machine gun is aimed at your chest. You’ve been doing this for 50 years, and now your adversary is weaker and less bellicose — but you still aren’t sure if you can...
May 16, 2000 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
May 16, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO: On Thursday May 18th, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament from 1994-1997 and the President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) will be at...
Apr 25, 2000 | China, Denuclearization, Iran, Iraq, Media, North Korea, NPT, Russia, U.S., United Nations
April 25, 2000 ARMS CONTROL Mr. DORGAN. Today, in the Washington Post, there was a story headlined `U.S. Arms Policy is Criticized at the United Nations.’ The occasion of the criticism comes at the beginning of the conference to review the status of the Nuclear...
Apr 25, 2000 | China, India, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, U.S., United Nations
Mr. President, Let me begin by congratulating you on your election as President of this Conference. Its success lies in your hands and I can assure you of the support of the Swedish delegation in this important endeavour. Sweden fully subscribes to the European...
Apr 14, 2000 | Cold War, Global Security Institute, Russia, U.S.
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up As TV audiences gathered to watch Sunday’s all-star cast perform a remake of the 1962 Cold War film Fail-Safe, some were drawn to the...
Apr 11, 2000 | China, Cold War, France, India, Israel, Media, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
April 11, 2000 The Cold War may be over, but the impending threat of nuclear warfare continues to loom over us today, said activists against nuclear engineering during a panel discussion Sunday night at Sproul Hall. Global Security Institute, an organization that...
Apr 11, 2000 | China, Cold War, Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
April 11, 2000 The end of the Cold War did little to reduce the danger of nuclear weapons, according to the participants in a panel discussion sponsored by the Center for International Security and Arms Control. In the discussion titled “So You Think Nuclear...
Apr 10, 2000 | Cold War, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S., Uncategorized
1)- April 10, 2000 Long after Cold War, The Bomb Chills As TV audiences gathered to watch Sunday’s all-star cast perform a remake of the 1962 Cold War film Fail-Safe, some were drawn to the project’s star power (George Clooney and an A-list of...
Apr 5, 2000 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up SAN FRANCISCO — This Sunday, a live television drama will reintroduce millions of viewers to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The CBS...
Mar 31, 2000 | Cold War, Disarmament, Events, Global Security Institute, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, Senator Ed Markey, U.S.
March 31, 2000 WASHINGTON, DC: Nuclear disarmament advocates plan to capitalize on heightened public awareness of the danger posed by nuclear weapons thanks, in part, to CBS’s remake of the 1964 nuclear weapons thriller, “Fail Safe.” Groups such as...
Mar 28, 2000 | Cold War, Global Terrorism, India, Iraq, Media, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
Tuesday, March 28, 2000 “Oh gosh, I forgot, we do have 6,000 strategic nuclear warheads of our own at a high state of alert, 15 minutes away from blowing up any city in the world. But our nuclear bombs are carried by ‘Peacekeeper’ missiles and are...
Mar 25, 2000 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Media, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
March 25, 2000 Millions of Americans will watch a live reenactment of the 1964 Cold War thriller Fail Safe on CBS television starring and produced by George Clooney. Fail Safe is a gripping fictional tale of accidental nuclear war. Unfortunately, the nuclear threat...
Mar 22, 2000 | Denuclearization, Dr. Jane Goodall, Media, Michael Douglas, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
March 22, 2000 Former U.S. Senator Alan Cranston, a longtime Los Altos-area resident, was honored March 14 for his contribution to the cause of nuclear arms elimination. “An Evening Honoring Senator Alan Cranston,” a fund-raiser for the Global Security...
Mar 18, 2000 | China, Cold War, France, Global Terrorism, Iraq, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
A major U.S. city is the most likely target of a nuclear attack by a terrorist group, a prominent nuclear disarmament group is warning. The Global Security Institute, headed by former U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston, is hoping to jar the public from its post-Cold War...
Mar 14, 2000 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Denuclearization, India, Media, NPT, Pakistan, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
March 14, 2000 Since 1981 Lawyers Alliance for World Security has been a nonpartisan organization of professionals concerned with promoting the rule of law and the control and elimination of threats posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Averell...
Mar 14, 2000 | Cold War, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
Remarks by Senator Alan Cranston The threat posed by nuclear weapons the issue that brings us together surpasses in a way all others. Many issues are important. But if we blow ourselves up in a nuclear holocaust, no other issue will matter. It was fruitless to...
Mar 14, 2000 | DPE, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
Thirty years ago — March 5, 1970 — the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) entered into force. The countries that negotiated the NPT had clear and important goals. They wanted a safer, more secure world in which states not possessing...
Mar 6, 2000 | Denuclearization, Media, NATO, NPT, Russia, U.S.
White House Press Office March 6, 2000 Thirty years ago — March 5, 1970 — the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) entered into force. The countries that negotiated the NPT had clear and important goals. They wanted a safer, more secure...
Feb 23, 2000 | Denuclearization, Nobel Summit, NPT, U.S., United Nations
1)- GSI – A Nuclear Crisis Every five years, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) comes up for reassessment by the countries that have signed it. This is the treaty that provides for international restraints (and inspections) on nuclear programs… It...
Feb 20, 2000 | Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Media, Nobel Summit, U.S., United Nations
Sunday, February 20, 2000 SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA–As President Bill Clinton ponders his post-presidential career options, he might consider the example of a former president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias Sanchez. It was Arias who brokered a Central American peace deal...
