Jonathan Granoff

Speeches, writings and interviews by GSI President Jonathan Granoff.


Triumph of Peace

August 27, 2008 South China Morning Post Op-ed by David Krieger The world has again witnessed 16 days of extraordinary beauty and talent by young athletes gathered from throughout the world. The athletes met in Beijing for the XXIXth Olympic Games of modern times and...

Nuclear Weapons: What Obama actually said on deterrence

 August 1, 2008 The Washington Times by John Hollum The Washington Times recently published an op-ed by Peter Huessy (“Playing games with U.S. security, Obama’s feel-good approach puts nuclear deterrent at risk”) which mischaracterized Sen....

The Test of Leadership

The Washington Times July 9, 2008 by James Goodby Much has been written about what the next president’s priorities should be. Iraq? Health care? The environment? The economy? Seldom mentioned is a danger many Americans have chosen to forget – the atom...

Questions for the candidates

International Herald Tribune July 4, 2008 by Mikhail Gorbachev There has been unusual interest throughout the world in the U.S. presidential race. Skeptics, of whom there are quite a few, say the campaign is just a marathon show that has little to do with real...

Nuclear Fuel Recyling: More Trouble Than Its Worth

April, 2008 Scientific American by Frank N. von Hippel Although a dozen years have elapsed since any new nuclear power reactor has come online in the U.S., there are now stirrings of a nuclear renaissance. The incentives are certainly in place: the costs of natural...

Sleepwalking in a Nuclear Minefield

April 2008 Sojourners The United States still worships at the altar of nuclear weapons – yet cries ‘heresy’ when others want to join the sect. by Douglas Roche Reprinted with permission. Contact Sojourners at www.sojo.net or +1 (800) 714-7474 As the...

‘Toward a Nuclear-Free World’: Reaganites against the bomb

April 2008 Sojourners by Tyler Wigg Stevenson and Jessica Wilbanks Reprinted with permission. +1 (800) 714-7474 In January 4, 2007, former Reagan administration officials George Shultz and Henry Kissinger joined Democrats William Perry and Sam Nunn in publishing...

Restoring U.S. nuclear-free leadership

April 2, 2008 Washington Timesby Thomas Graham, Jr. and Max Kampelman   After a long dry spell, the seeds planted by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in 1985 and Reykjavik in 1986, appear to be bearing fruit. Their declaration in Geneva that “a...

Juggling and the Kashmir-Jammu Conflict

April 2008 By Alyn Ware SGI Quarterly I am visiting a school in rural New Zealand and am with a group of 15 students outside on the playing field. I have a bag of balls at my side. “Who here knows how to juggle a couple of balls?” I ask, tossing two balls...

Spiritual Disaster Preparedness

March 31, 2008 Will evangelicals show the will to pursue the prevention of a pending threat? by Tyler Wigg Stevenson Originally published by Christianity Today At 10:13 a.m. on Thursday, May 25, 2017, a 14-foot U-Haul truck will abruptly come to an inexplicable stop...

A Merciful White Flash

March 31, 2008   While despairing of nuclear annihilation, I received an irresistible consolation. By Tyler Wigg Stevenson This piece was originally published in Christianity Today, Before I became a Christian, I had the worst lunch breaks in the world. They went...

Forsaking Space Weapons Would Spur Peace

March 26, 2008 Op-ed by Rhianna Tyson 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 side’s foolhardy plans to...

America Was Not Entirely Asleep at the Nuclear Switch

December 19, 2007 Embassy magazine By Jonathan Granoff Those of us who vigorously advocate for a nuclear weapon-free world are often thought to ignore positive efforts by nuclear weapon states. Let us put that to rest. Here is a short list of several noteworthy...

Addressing the nuclear threat

By Jonathan Granoff Special to The Courier-Journal 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...

The best US weapon against Iran is diplomacy

BY JOHN BURROUGHS* September 26, 2007 Read the full text original article, published in Newsday On Friday at the United Nations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will discuss strategy regarding Iran’s nuclear program with her counterparts from Britain,...

The Human Factor- Revising Einstein

By PNND Global Coordinator Alyn Ware SGI Quarterly July, 2007 The original article can be found here On November 6, 1995, Lijon Eknilang, a quiet, unassuming woman from the Pacific island of Rongelap, made what is probably the longest trip in the world for a court...

Old thinking about a new threat

June 8, 2007 Theodore Postol and James Goodby New York Times PALO ALTO, California — President Vladimir Putin’s compromise proposal to President George W. Bush concerning the U.S. ballistic missile defense system currently slated to be installed in Poland...

A New Moment for Non-Proliferation

Disarmament Times Spring, 2007, Vol. 30, No. 1 by Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C. The first preparatory meeting for the 2010 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty is set to begin in Vienna on April 30, beginning a new cycle in the long struggle to rid the world...

Time for US Values in the Heavens

February 10, 2007 Op/ed by Jonathan Granoff Published in Commondreams.org and The Huffington Post Click here for a PDF version of the article Shopping alone in the red light district for a trusted partner is counterintuitive, when applied to international security...

The Nuclear Threat

January 31, 2007 Op-ed by Mikhail Gorbachev The Wall Street Journal “The essay, ‘A World Free of Nuclear Weapons,’ published in this newspaper on January 4, was signed by a bipartisan group of four influential Americans — George Schulz, William...

Think Again: US-India Nuclear Deal

The Deal Will Strengthen Only Indias Peaceful Nuclear Program False. The proposed agreement provides India with nuclear materials and technology from the United States. In exchange, India would divide its civilian and military nuclear programs, place safeguards on its...

Say No to the US-India Deal

 April 27, 2006 by Jonathan Granoff and David Krieger Common Dreams To view the original version of this article, please click here. George W. Bush thought that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He was wrong. Now Mr. Bush has returned from India,...

A Dangerous Deal with India

 March 29, 2006 by Jimmy Carter The Washington Post During the past five years the United States has abandoned many of the nuclear arms control agreements negotiated since the administration of Dwight Eisenhower. This change in policies has sent uncertain signals...

The Framework of Human Unity

June-August, 2005 By Jonathan Granoff Enlightenext Magazine 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...

Erosion of the Nonproliferation Treaty

 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...