Jonathan Granoff

Speeches, writings and interviews by GSI President Jonathan Granoff.

The Iraq Inspections Worked, Lies Have Consequences

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Saving Nonproliferation

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Citizens of the World, Unite

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Permission Slips

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Bush Should’ve Taken His Father’s Advice On War

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Power Over the Ultimate Evil

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

North Korea Up In Arms

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Don’t Make Mini-Nukes

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

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...

U.S. Hard Line will not Curb North Korea’s Nuclear Policy

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

The Iraq Dilemma: The Iraq Dilemma

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Best Way to Build World Stability

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

As America Spurns Another Treaty

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

A Pretty Poor Posture for a Superpower

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

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...

Rethink the Unthinkable

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

A Leading Role for the Security Council

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Disaster Spotlights Need for International Action

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Missile Defense a Threat

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Addressing the Cold War’s Unfinished Business

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Iran Conference Report

Jul 5, 2012 | Events, Policy Briefs and Reports

by Jonathan Granoff President, Global Security Institute   Photo courtesy of Michael Collopy   The Institute for Political and International Studies of the Foreign Ministry of Iran held a high level conference in Tehran on March 9, 2008 titled...

Fail Safe Remains a Tale for Our Times

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

U.S. Must Rethink Its Nuclear Policy

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

Nukes Beget Nukes: Away with Bombs

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 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...

NATO and Peace Would Gain from a No-First-Use Policy

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

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...