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Defensive Shield Would Reduce Safety, Fail to Stop Missiles: The Nuclear Question by Alan Cranston and Zachary Bishop Allen – San Jose Mercury News

June 4, 2000 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 is weaker and less bellicose — but you still aren’t sure if...

Panel Agrees Risk of Nuclear Attacks Grave – Discussion Concludes that Americans often Under-Estimate Risk by Peter Stair – Stanford Daily

April 11, 2000 The end of the Cold War did little to reduce the danger of nuclear weapons, according to the participants in a panel discussion sponsored by the Center for International Security and Arms Control. In the discussion titled “So You Think Nuclear...

Nuclear Disarmament in the 21st Century – Remarks by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. – W. Averell Harriman Award Dinner -San Francisco, CA

March 14, 2000 Since 1981 Lawyers Alliance for World Security has been a nonpartisan organization of professionals concerned with promoting the rule of law and the control and elimination of threats posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Averell...

Remarks by Sen. Alan Cranston on the Occasion of Receiving the W. Averell Harriman Award in Honor of His Career and Dedication to Promoting World Peace

Remarks by Senator Alan Cranston The threat posed by nuclear weapons – the issue that brings us together – surpasses in a way all others. Many issues are important. But if we blow ourselves up in a nuclear holocaust, no other issue will matter. It was fruitless to...

Global Security Institute Report: The NPT Atlanta Consultation

January 30, 2000 On January 26-27, 2000, the Middle Powers Initiative and The Carter Center co-sponsored the Atlanta Consultation on the Future of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The purpose was to serve as a forum for groups to share thoughts on the challenges facing...

Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Alan Cranston, Dr.Jane Goodall and 120 International Youth Leaders Call for Ban of Nuclear Weapons Testing

  October 06, 1999 The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Alan Cranston, Dr. Jane Goodall, and 120 youth leaders representing more than 50 countries will gather on the steps of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral at Noon today, October 6, 1999, to call for the US...

The Middle Power Initiative: Helping to Move the U.S. Forward – An Address to the State of the World Forum by Senator Douglas Roche, O.C – Transcript

October 3, 1999 Transcript A few weeks ago, I returned to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to see once again the effect of atomic bombing. It was a profound experience to speak to some of the survivors and see the museum displays of the horror and suffering. It is a visit I...