Jonathan Granoff

Speeches, writings and interviews by GSI President Jonathan Granoff.

The Peace and Security of the Individual and the Planet

Jul 16, 2012 | Inspiration

A special broadcast of Our Sacred Journey with Audrey Kitagawa A VoiceAmerica radio show The living systems of the planet — rainforests, oceans, and climate are threatened. There are over 20,000 nuclear weapons in the world today quietly ready, just as they were...

NATO Looks Backward, Nobel Peace Laureates Look Forward to Youth

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Jonanthan Granoff and Pavel PalazhchenkoHuffington Post May 31, 2012 NATO’s Heads of State and Government met in Chicago on May 20 and 21. A few weeks earlier, April 23-25, the Nobel Peace Laureates gathered there for their annual summit. A city that could...

The Meaning of Iran’s Nuclear Weapon Program

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Rhianna Tyson KregerHuffington PostMay 18, 2012 Iran’s presumed quest for nuclear weapons isn’t just about nuclear weapons. It is also about prestige, and it is also about respect, both of which Iran believes it is entitled to, and neither of which it...

Iran: All Options On the Table?

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  By Jonathan Granoff Huffington Post March 21, 2012   We hear a great deal of bravado on the best way to respond to the international security threat posed by Iran. The mantra of having “all options on the table” should include the many options...

Iran: The Course Ahead

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  By Thomas Graham Ambassadors Perspective March 15, 2012   Iran has been pursuing a nuclear program for nearly four decades.  It began when the Shah was in power, was initially not continued by the Islamic Republic but by the late 1980’s was...

Reagan & Reykjavik

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by James Goodby and Nathan Pyles The Hill November 21, 2011   The world recently marked the 25th anniversary of the historic Reykjavik summit, when President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in a simple clapboard house in...

More than Moralism: How Values Matter to Nuclear Security

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson Review of Faith & International Affairs August 2011   Nuclear weapons are devices; a means to a variety of ends. Ethical analysis must have compelling moral ends as the primary point of reference. By morally examining a...

Purpose, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by David Krieger counterpunch.org August 26-28, 2011   Recently, a friend sent me a copy of Admiral Hyman Rickover’s 1982 Morgenthau Memorial Lecture.  The lecture, given under the auspices of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International...

International Security on the Road to Nuclear Security

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Dr. Nancy Gallagher The Nonproliferation Review June 2011 The disappointingly slow pace of progress on efforts to prevent proliferation, reduce nuclear weapons, and eliminate nuclear risks has many causes. The factor that might be easiest for individuals in the...

Nuclear Energy and Weapons: Uncontrollable in Time and Space

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Alyn Ware Huffington Post March 23, 2011   The earthquake and tsunami in Japan devastated a whole region. Radioactive emissions from the damaged nuclear reactors are very serious, and have already contaminated food and water, prompting a ban on food exports...

Wisdom or Fatal Folly

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger Huffington Post March 15, 2011   As the health impact of smoking became better known to Americans, the practice eventually diminished. The cigarette industry decided to look beyond US borders. Huge amounts of money are...

The path towards eliminating nukes is clear-cut

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by Douglas Roche Embassy March 9, 2011   Two events have coincided to give the Canadian government a powerful opportunity to play a key role in the growing effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Both the Senate and the House of Commons have...

START-ing a new security

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Huffington Post by Rhianna Tyson Kreger December 23, 2010   If you witnessed a lot of hubbub in Dupont Circle pubs last night, it’s a good chance it was the celebrations of my passionate arms control friends and colleagues, relishing the victory that...

Non-proliferation meets non-partisanship

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Embassy by Douglas Roche December 15, 2010   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...

Bridging the Reality Gap

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff December 1, 2010   I’ve just returned from Hiroshima where Nobel Peace Laureates gathered for a three-day summit to renew their efforts to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons. After hearing testimonies of...

An Ottawa Process for Nukes?

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Embassy by Alyn Ware November 10, 2010   In 1996, Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy invited ‘like-minded States’ to Ottawa to draft a treaty banning landmines- bypassing negotiations on a more limited landmines control regime that were bogged...

Nobel Peace Laureates’ Summit: Inspiration From Hiroshima

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff November 4, 2010   The 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will meet in Hiroshima, Japan, on November 12-14, and the Laureates, including President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama, are asking US President Barack...

Countdown to Zero: A compelling film with a critical message

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Tikkun, and re-published in the Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger July 29, 2010   A few years ago, Lawrence Bender and Jeffrey Skoll set out to make a new documentary about nuclear weapons, a film which would act as a wake up...

Re-thinking Israeli Security

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Huffington Post by Rhianna Tyson Kreger June 14, 2010   Jewish ingenuity helped create the weapon that is now the greatest threat to our survival. Let it also be Jewish brilliance, leadership, and morality that contribute towards the liberation of all humanity...

Cutting the Gordian Knot

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Peace and Health by Xanthe Hall April 25, 2010   Before you all physically or mentally traipse off to New York – volcanic ash allowing – I’d like to say something. Nuclear weapons do have a purpose. What I want to share with you may seem...

Principles and Process

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Arms Control Today by Henrik Salander April 2010   For anyone who attended the 2005 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, where the parties failed to agree on anything at all, the recent debacle at the Copenhagen climate change conference...

Will Canada go the non-proliferation distance?

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Embassy by Douglas Roche, O.C. April 14, 2010   US President Barack Obama dramatized world attention on nuclear dangers during his extraordinary 47-nation Washington summit this week by warning that just an apple-sized container of plutonium could set off a...

President Obama Is on the Right Track

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

National Journal National Security Blog by David Krieger April 12, 2010   President Obama is on the right track with his multiple efforts to reduce nuclear dangers. I only wish that it were a faster track and reflected a greater sense of urgency. His policies...

Japan needs to loosen the US nuclear leash

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Asahi Shimbun Hiromichi Umebayashi April 20, 2010   The greatest achievement of the investigation into “secret pacts” between Japan and the United States was a clear recognition that there was indeed a tacit agreement between the two governments...

Japan and NATO Are Ready for the US to Reduce Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Huffington Post by Alyn Ware February 18, 2010   It has been nearly a year since President Obama’s now famous Prague speech, announcing America’s commitment to a nuclear weapons-free future. A key test of that commitment is at hand: the current U. S....