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May 2, 2005 By Jimmy Carter International Herald Tribune 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...
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October 28, 2004 by Jonathan Granoff Common Dreams The inspection disarmament efforts through the UN system worked in Iraq. The invasion was not necessary. Billions of dollars have been squandered, thousands of lives and limbs lost, and the people of Iraq live...
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March 28, 2005 By Jimmy Carter The Washington Post 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...
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June 30, 2004 By Kim Cranston San Francisco Chronicle As we witness the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq, I wonder what my father, the late Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., would have thought about the situation there. A few days before he passed away in December...
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April 21, 2004 By Jonathan Granoff, Michael Doyle and Robert Grey Jr. Common Dreams People make mistakes. We should not be too surprised or dismayed at the failure of intelligence regarding weapons in Iraq. We now know that blood and treasure is being spent...
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December 13, 2003 By Robert T. Grey, Jr. Chicago Sun Times In his memoir, A World Transformed, former President George Bush in discussing the Gulf War made the following observation: ”Trying to eliminate Saddam would have incurred incalculable human and...
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Nov/Dec 2003 By Jonathan Granoff Tikkun There are approximately 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world, 90 percent of which are possessed by Russia and the United States. The United States has about 11,000 nuclear weapons, and the Russians have about 19,500 nuclear...
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August 14, 2003 By Robert T. Grey Jr. The Washington Times The Bush administration and its critics agree that the viability of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is crucial to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear materials. Any actions to...
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June 9, 2003 By John Holum International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON, DC–Even as U.S. forces struggle to consolidate victory in a war justified largely to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the White House is preparing to build and test new nuclear weapons...
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April 22, 2003 By Urs A. Cipolat The Progressive The Bush administration wrongly believes it can eliminate the nuclear threat by wars of prevention. This policy may actually stimulate efforts by other countries to quickly obtain nuclear weapons. Earlier this...
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January 15, 2003 By Ambassador Robert T. Grey Jr. San Francisco Chronicle Sept. 11, 2001 focused the attention of the world on the threat of global terrorism, and the international community responded collectively to the threat it posed. But the tools for...
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January 10, 2003 By Jonathan Granoff San Diego Union Tribune War does not exist without the shedding of innocent blood. Under the best-case scenario, Iraq’s children – present victims of the Ba’ath Party mafiocracy with its Don, Saddam Hussein...
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October 5, 2002 By Jonathan Granoff and Douglas Roche Financial Times Sir, If Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction, their control and elimination must be done in an effective manner that reinforces international stability. It is in the utmost interest...
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May 8, 2002 By Zachary Allen The New York Times To the Editor: Re “U.S. Rejects All Support for New Court on Atrocities” (news article, May 7): The Bush administration’s repudiation of the International Criminal Court is a grave disappointment...
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March 13, 2002 ROBERT S. McNAMARA and THOMAS GRAHAM Jr.L.A. Times During the Cold War, peace was supported by the doctrine of “mutual assured destruction,” which simply meant that each side maintained second strike capability, thereby deterring...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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June 4, 2000 By Alan Cranston and Zachary Bishop Allen San Jose Mercury News 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...
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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...
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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...
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February 1998 By Alan Cranston Disarmament Diplomacy — Issue No 23 The abolition statement by international civilian leaders, made public on 2 February 1998 by General Lee Butler and the State of the World Forum – the full text of which follows this...
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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...
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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...
