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A Nuclear Crisis

 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...

Preserving the Rule of Law to Resolve Iran Impasse

GSI President Jonathan Granoff was featured in The Huffington Post, with an important article highlighting the special duty of America to follow the rule of law in addressing the international challenge of Iran. Regarding Iran, America Must Look to the Constitution...

Op Ed by Doug Roche: Non-proliferation meets non-partisanship

Op-ed by Douglas Roche Embassy, December 15, 2010, p. 15 Hansard recorded the event in the House of Commons under “Routine Proceedings,” but there was nothing routine about it. For the first time in the history of Canada’s Parliament, both the House...

Op-eds on IHL

Valuable Approach to Advance the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Announcing Articles in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and the Fordham International Law Journal Dear Friend: “Nuclear weapons are unworthy of civilization.” Senator Alan Cranston, founder...

Op Ed: Addressing the nuclear threat

Op-ed By Jonathan Granoff Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Click here for the original publication Religious leaders gathering this week at the Festival of Faiths in Louisville must make a forceful call to forge a consensus of conscience and reason: Nuclear weapons are...

Forsaking Space Weapons Would Spur Peace

Op-ed by Rhianna Tyson Click here for the original publication at Commondreams.org Tensions, it seems, between the US and Russia heighten daily. Increasingly hostile rhetoric is slung from both sides in a tactical volley best characterized as dumb and dumber. One...

Editorials on START

See below for two new pieces on START– the new treaty between the US and Russia which aims to reduce each country’s arsenal to no more than 1,550 deployed warheads– by GSI leadership. Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.’s letter to the editor on...

Pacta Sunt Servanda: Promises to Keep

Pacta Sunt Servanda: Promises to Keep Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute UN Day Conference – Nuclear Disarmament: A Compass Point for Progress and Accountability On United Nations Day three years ago, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set forth a...

“The Limits of Unilateralism” By Amb. Thomas Graham, Jr.

Remarks by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.Washington, DC October 2, 2003 Disarmament, arms control, is not a new issue. In the Middle Ages, the Pope outlawed the crossbow declaring it to be “hateful to God and unfit for Christians.” However, the crossbow was...

Forsaking Space Weapons Would Spur Peace

Op-ed by Rhianna Tyson Click here for the original publication at Commondreams.org Tensions, it seems, between the US and Russia heighten daily. Increasingly hostile rhetoric is slung from both sides in a tactical volley best characterized as dumb and dumber. One...

Toward a Nuclear-Free World: Reaganites against the bomb

Op-ed by Tyler Wigg Stevenson and Jessica Wilbanks This article was originally published in Sojourners Magazine, April 2008. Reprinted with permission. +1 (800) 714-7474 In January 4, 2007, former Reagan administration officials George Shultz and Henry Kissinger...

Strengthening Space Security

October 14, 2009 Event report by Jim Wurst     (L-R): John Steinbruner, Nancy Gallagher, Cesar Jaramillo Technology in outer space is outpacing the global legal regime governing their use. New arrangements are therefore needed to ensure that space is kept...

Addressing the Nuclear Threat: Op-Ed by Jonathan Granoff – Special to the Courier-Journal

About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events GSI eNewsletter Click here for the original publication By Jonathan Granoff Special to The Courier-Journal Religious leaders gathering this week at the Festival of Faiths...

GSI eNewsletter: January 17, 2007

Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is a pleasure to share “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons”, an op-ed by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn which was published in The Wall Street Journal on January 4, 2007. It is a seminal document in...

2003: News Archive

  GSI January 15, 2003 Warmongering Without Representation Unilateralism is Not the American Way 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....