Apr 9, 2002 | Global Terrorism, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., United Nations
United Nations New York April 9, 2002 Presented at the Closing Ceremony of the 2002 Gandhi and King Season for Nonviolence Cosponsored by: Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations, The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for...
Apr 8, 2002 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Henrik Salander, Biothreats, Denuclearization, Douglas Roche, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Middle Powers Initiative, Nobel Summit, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Rose Gottemoeller, Russia, U.S., United Nations
New York April 8, 2002 On April 8, 2002 the opening day of the 2002 NPT Review Conference Preparatory Committee, the Middle Powers Initiative, a program of the Global Security Institute, hosted a Strategy Consultation at the United Nations in New York. The Strategy...
Apr 8, 2002 | Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
New York April 8-19, 2002 The NPT should be supported by a permanent secretariat based at the United Nations. There needs to be a formal analysis of the best format for such a modest institutional requirement. NPT SECRETARIAT The NPT does not have a permanent...
Apr 2, 2002 | Biothreats, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Global Terrorism, Media, NATO, Rose Gottemoeller
On Nukes, We Need to Talk By Rose Gottemoeller Washington Post April 2, 2002 Twenty years have passed since we had a good fight over nuclear weapons, so in a way, the furor that has greeted the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review ought to be welcomed. The last time we got...
Mar 12, 2002 | China, Denuclearization, Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
March 12, 2002 Details of the US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) make explicit a dangerous shift that threatens to undermine US security by encouraging others to develop new nuclear weapons and use them, and would violate US political and legal obligations. The NPR is a...
Mar 12, 2002 | Canada, China, Douglas Roche, France, India, Israel, Media, NATO, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, Russia, U.S.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 The idea of waging nuclear war is taking flight in Washington. Canada must protest, says DOUGLAS ROCHE, former chair of the UN Disarmament Committee. Nuclear weapons are back on the front pages, with news of a Bush administration policy...
Feb 14, 2002 | Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., U.S. Congress
February 14, 2002 In December 2001, the Washington Post reported that some officials in the Bush administration were advocating the development of a new “usable” nuclear weapon or “mini-nuke.” Additional news articles in January 2002,...
Jan 1, 2002 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Nobel Summit, Nuclear Proliferation
2002 Annual Report Download Here (PDF) During this time of war, we must “refuse to accept the cynicism and despair that crushes hope and vision.” I invite you to join the Nobel Peace Laureates, who at a recent gathering in Rome affirmed strongly “our...
Jan 1, 2002 | Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation
In January 2002, the GSI Board of Directors and the MPI International Steering Committee unanimously endorsed a resolution accepting “the Middle Powers Initiative [www.middlepowers.org]as a program of the Global Security Institute.” GSI will now take...
Dec 4, 2001 | Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Media, U.S. Congress, Weaponization of Space
December 04, 2001 PHILADELPHIA: On the eve of the Bush Administration’s December 3 test of an anti-ballistic missile interceptor, a group of experts gathered in Philadelphia’s Friends Conference Center for a conference addressing the implications of...
Dec 4, 2001 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Media, North Korea, Russia, U.S., Weaponization of Space
December 4, 2001 PHILADELPHIA: On the eve of the Bush Administration’s December 3 test of an anti-ballistic missile interceptor, a group of experts gathered in Philadelphia’s Friends Conference Center for a conference addressing the implications of missile...
Dec 1, 2001 | Denuclearization, Douglas Roche, Global Terrorism, Media, NPT, Russia, U.S., United Nations
14. Reducing Nuclear Danger: Priority Points 14.1A number of delegations referred to a recent report, “Reducing Nuclear Danger,” published by the U.N.’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters <...
Oct 21, 2001 | China, Europe, Global Terrorism, India, Media, Russia, U.S.
October 21, 2001 MOSCOW – In the past month, the world has witnessed something previously unknown: a common stand taken by America, Russia, Europe, India, China, Cuba, most of the Islamic world and numerous other regions and countries. Despite many serious...
Oct 8, 2001 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Denuclearization, Global Terrorism, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., United Nations
October 8, 2001 I begin by congratulating you, Mr. Chairman, upon your election to guide the work of this Committee. Your distinguished career equips you well for the tasks ahead — a career that, in the disarmament area, features your prominent role in the...
Sep 23, 2001 | Global Terrorism, India, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan
September 23, 2001 Since World War II, humanity has mastered extraordinary challenges. We can orbit the earth. We can transplant organs. We can travel faster than sound, and we can communicate across the globe almost instantaneously. We can commit global suicide, too....
Sep 23, 2001 | Global Terrorism, India, Media, NPT, Pakistan, U.S.
Sunday, September 23, 2001 Since World War II, humanity has mastered extraordinary challenges. We can orbit the earth. We can transplant organs. We can travel faster than sound, and we can communicate across the globe almost instantaneously. We can commit global...
Sep 12, 2001 | Biothreats, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
September 12, 2001 SAN FRANCISCO: Tuesday morning’s attacks on the people of New York and Washington, DC are a stunning demonstration of humanity’s capability to reduce the best of what we are to rubble, smoke, and death. In the aftermath of such horror,...
Sep 1, 2001 | Denuclearization, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Weaponization of Space
September, 2001 Number of nuclear weapons in the world: 30,000 * 8 countries (US, Russia, China, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, India and Israel) posses nuclear weapons. Several thousand of these weapons can still reach the US within 30 minutes of launch. Number of...
Aug 11, 2001 | China, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, Russia, U.S., United Nations, Weaponization of Space
Missile Defense a Threat By Jonathan Dean and Jonathan Granoff Chicago Sun Times Commentary August 11, 2001 In their July 22 meeting in Genoa, Italy, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to consider the topics of national missile defense and...
Jun 24, 2001 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Media
Sunday, June 24, 2001 SALT LAKE CITY: Mayor Rocky Anderson — known as a political maverick — Stepped up to the international soapbox Saturday when he challenged President Bush and his Russian counterpart to lead the world in eliminating nuclear weapons....
Jun 15, 2001 | Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, U.S. Congress, Weaponization of Space
June 15, 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C.–From June 10-13, 2001, Project Abolition, a coalition of non-profit organizations promoting security through nuclear disarmament, worked with the Nuclear Disarmament Partnership to organize a press conference, Congressional...
Jun 12, 2001 | China, Media, Russia
Reuters June 12, 2001 WASHINGTON (Reuters): As President Bush opened his first trip to Europe with missile defense high on the agenda, congressional Democrats on Tuesday renewed their opposition to deploying a national missile defense before it is proven ready. At a...
Apr 11, 2001 | Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
April 11, 2001 TRANSCRIPT Panel discussion held April 11, 2001 in the United Nations by the NGO Committee on Disarmament, in cooperation with the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs and the UN Department of Public Information. Panelists: AMBASSADOR NORMAN WULF,...
Apr 11, 2001 | Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NATO, NPT, Russia, U.S.
NGO Committee on Disarmament April 11, 2001 The Program of Action on Nuclear Disarmament adopted by consensus at the Sixth Review Conference of the NPT contains thirteen practical steps for the systematic and progressive efforts to implement Article 6 of the Treaty....
Apr 11, 2001 | Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NATO, NPT, Russia, U.S.
Panel Discussion April 11, 2001 TRANSCRIPT DISARMAMENT AND ARMS CONTROL OBJECTIVES Panel discussion held April 11, 2001 in the United Nations by the NGO Committee on Disarmament, in cooperation with the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs and the UN Department of...
Mar 7, 2001 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, United Nations
March 07, 2001 In order to stimulate discussion of past nuclear crises and current nuclear risks, the Global Security Institute hosted a screening of Thirteen Days, the critically acclaimed film about the Cuban Missile Crisis, on March 7 at the United Nations....
