Sep 7, 2005 | Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter
HONORING A MAN WHO REMEMBERED HIS HUMANITY Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005) Dear Friends: One of the most engaged and well-respected members of the GSI Board of Advisors, Sir Joseph Rotblat, died on August 31, 2005. The world has lost one the greatest men...
Aug 23, 2005 | Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Media, North Korea
The Process in Place By Rose Gottemoeller The New York Times Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Washington – Negotiators in Beijing have left the most recent round of the six-nation talks on stability and nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula confronted with a North...
Aug 15, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Iran, Media, NPT
Iran: A Crisis Of Choice By Amb. Thomas Graham, Jr. Tompaine.com August 15, 2005 The controversy over the Iranian nuclear program is neither a new issue nor is it a crisis. But if the United States does not handle this issue carefully, the result could be that Iran...
Aug 10, 2005 | Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter
Contents: 1. MPI Chairman delivers address for 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing, Hiroshima, Japan 2. MPI Chairman interview on Australian Broadcast Radio 3. Texts of testimonies by Hiroshima Mayor Akiba and Nagasaki 4. Mayor Itoh to the International Court of...
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...
Jul 8, 2005 | Media, Russia
A Promising Direction for G8 Leadership By Rose Gottemoeller The Moscow Times July 8, 2005 At the close of the Gleneagles Summit this week, Russia will take over leadership of the Group of Eight, the “super club” of countries that in theory are...
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...
Jun 15, 2005 | Christie Brinkley, Disarmament, Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Michael Douglas, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, Newsletter, NPT, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Dear Friends: The 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference did not accomplish much needed progress in nuclear non-proliferation or disarmament. Renewed efforts to make the world safer have become more urgent. The interim report below tells how a...
Jun 8, 2005 | Bipartisan Security Group, Canada, China, Cold War, Disarmament, Events, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, India, Iran, North Korea, Rose Gottemoeller, Russia, Uncategorized, United Nations, Weapons of Mass Destruction
About BSG BSG Experts News Room BSG Publications Newsletter Sign Up At the close of the Gleneagles Summit this week, Russia will take over leadership of the Group of Eight, the “super club” of countries that in theory are driving the world economy and...
Jun 8, 2005 | Christie Brinkley, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, NPT
CONTENTS 1. A MESSAGE FROM GSI’S MANAGING DIRECTOR 2. AN APPEAL FROM CHRISTIE BRINKLEY 3. NPT IN GRAVE DANGER, MPI REPORT CONCLUDES 4. NEW ZEALAND MINISTER MARIAN HOBBS CALLS FOR GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, THANKS MPI 5. ARMS CONTROL EXPERTS MEET ON CAPITOL HILL...
Jun 1, 2005 | Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Summit
Click here for the original article, published in Enlightenment Nobel Peace laureates have a right, an ability, and a responsibility to articulate a morally empowered vision for all people on the planet. Most leaders, when they say ‘we,’ are...
May 30, 2005 | Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Iran, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Regrettably, there are times when multilateral forums tend merely to reflect, rather than mend, deep rifts over how to confront the threats we...
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 24, 2005 | Video Blog
May 24, 2005 The Global Security Institute presented a panel of outstanding experts whose unique experiences at the center of the nuclear weapons crisis qualify them to offer insights for the future. Robert McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Ted Sorensen,...
May 17, 2005 | Cold War, DPE, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation
Fifty years ago, I joined Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and eight others in signing a manifesto warning of the dire consequences of nuclear war. This statement, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, was Einstein’s final public act. He died shortly after signing...
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...
Apr 22, 2005 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Media
April 21, 2005 WASHINGTON In spite of the Bush administration’s recent calls for quick passage, some conservatives are campaigning vigorously to block ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention, a treaty governing the use of the world’s oceans, in the...
