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Rethink the Unthinkable

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 March 12, 2002 By Senator Douglas Roche The Globe and Mail 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...

A Leading Role for the Security Council

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 October 21, 2001 By Mikhail S. Gorbachev The New York Times 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...

Disaster Spotlights Need for International Action

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 September 23, 2001 By Kim Cranston and Laura Mcgrath Moulton San Jose Mercury News 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...

Missile Defense a Threat

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 August 11, 2001 By Jonathan Dean and Jonathan Granoff Chicago Sun Times Commentary 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 further cuts in nuclear...

Addressing the Cold War’s Unfinished Business

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 June 4, 2000 By Alan Cranston and Tad Daley Los Angeles Times 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...

Iran Conference Report

Jul 5, 2012 | Events, Policy Briefs and Reports

by Jonathan Granoff President, Global Security Institute   Photo courtesy of Michael Collopy   The Institute for Political and International Studies of the Foreign Ministry of Iran held a high level conference in Tehran on March 9, 2008 titled...

Fail Safe Remains a Tale for Our Times

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 April 5, 2000 By Alan Cranston Global Beat Syndicate SAN FRANCISCO — This Sunday, a live television drama will reintroduce millions of viewers to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The CBS television network will broadcast a remake of Fail Safe, the...

U.S. Must Rethink Its Nuclear Policy

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 June 9, 1998 By Alan Cranston San Francisco Chronicle India’s and Pakistan’s nuclear tests reveal the impotence of current policies intended to prevent proliferation. Moralizing appeals, threats of sanctions and offers of military and economic aid...

Nukes Beget Nukes: Away with Bombs

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 November 16, 1999 By Alan Cranston San Francisco Examiner LOS ALTOS HILLS: Shortly after atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I met Albert Einstein. He warned if the bomb were developed further, and ever used all-out, the human race could be...

NATO and Peace Would Gain from a No-First-Use Policy

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

December 15, 1999 By Thomas Graham, Jr., Robert Mcnamara and Jack MendelsohnL.A. Times We believe it is critical for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to reconsider its nuclear policy and agree to a no-first-use provision on nuclear weapons. Such a policy would...

A Nuclear Crisis

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 February 23, 2000 By Jimmy Carter Washington Post  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...

The Post-Atomic World

Jul 5, 2012 | Video Blog

As an Evangelical preacher, GSI Board Member Tyler Wigg Stevenson believes that Christians have a particularly important role to play in helping prevent the evil of nuclear weapons from being unleashed onto the world. At the 2009 Q Conference, Stevenson identified...

Armitage Award

Jun 28, 2012 | Events

A Message from BSG Director Ambassador Robert Grey, Jr. Dear friends and supporters, It is my tremendous honor to invite you to a special event at the Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, where my friend and colleague, GSI President Jonathan Granoff, will receive...

The US-India Deal

Jun 28, 2012 | Video Blog

GSI and MPI Adviser Jayantha Dhanapala talks about how the US-India nuclear cooperation deal violates the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The Three Most Important Legal Instruments

Jun 28, 2012 | Video Blog

GSI President Jonathan Granoff discusses what he believes are the three most important legan instruments of the 20th century: the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the nuclear Non-Prolieration Treaty.  

The Greatest Threat

Jun 28, 2012 | Video Blog

Jonathan Granoff talks about the current state of the world’s nuclear arsenals. If the five declared nuclear weapons states cannot stop producing new nuclear weapons, he says, then what hope has the world of stopping nations like North Korea or Iran? ...