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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by Douglas Roche and Ernie Regehr February 3, 2010 High-ranking officials of the US State Department, NATO and the United Nations were in Ottawa last week to meet with the leaders of five national nuclear disarmament groups and experienced civil society...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
The Hill by Barry Kellman January 25, 2010 The warning is clear: Bioterrorism is a serious danger to the United States, says the Report Card Grading Government on Protecting the United States, released Tuesday by the congressionally-mandated...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
LA Times LTE by Barry Kellman December 16, 2009 Characterizing the Obama administration’s decision to not support international monitoring of the Biological Weapons Convention as “ducking the issue” manifests a serious misunderstanding of how...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
The Hillby Barry Kellman, BSG Member December 15, 2009 The Commission on Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism identified two existential threats: nuclear and biological weapons. Bioweapons are easier to make and could be used repeatedly to inflict widespread...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
The Huffington Post by Alyn Ware November 9, 2009 In late September, President Obama chaired the UN Security Council as it adopted an unprecedented resolution on non-proliferation and global nuclear disarmament, vague on the details perhaps, but...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
The Edmonton Journal by Douglas Roche “But he hasn’t done anything yet!” That sentence was on the lips of skeptics the minute they heard that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. The doubters are wrong. Obama has...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Washington Post/Newsweek by GSI Board Member Tyler Wigg Stevenson Even a casual student of American politics must wonder what evangelicals are doing at the vanguard of a new movement toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. After all, the anti-Communism of a...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
UN Chronicle by Miguel Marin-Bosch After the worst of times, we are perhaps entering the best of times for proponents of nuclear disarmament. At long last, advocates of the elimination of nuclear weapons have reason for some guarded optimism. The road to a...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Wall Street Journal LTE by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. In “Why Democrats Fail at Arms Control” (op-ed, Sept. 24), Stephen Rademaker argues that Democratic presidents have failed with Russia on strategic arms control agreements because of...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger President Obama’s historic Security Council summit on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation should be seen for what it is: an extremely important step towards a safer, saner, more secure...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Disarmament Diplomacy by Thomas Graham, J.r and David Hafemeister President Obama’s call in Prague to complete the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was widely praised on the global stage. But what will be entailed for the United States to...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Huffington Post by GSI President Jonathan Granoff August 27, 2009 Nuclear weapons are abhorrent in anyone’s hands. Imagine if the Biological Weapons Convention said that polio and small pox as weapons are banned universally but the plague as a weapon can...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
The Japan Times by Shingo Fukuyama and MPI Steering Committee member Hiromichi Umebayashi August 25, 2009 As the Obama administration contemplates major reductions to its nuclear arsenal, Japan’s commitment to nuclear disarmament is being tested as never...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by MPI Chairman Emeritus Douglas Roche August 19, 2009 When President Barack Obama chairs a summit of the UN Security Council Sept. 24 on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, a new and exciting moment will have arrived in the long struggle...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Huffington Post by GSI Board Member Christie Brinkley May 13, 2009 Change is a constant. Sometimes the world changes imperceptibly, slowly, and sometimes it can come in a flash. The world is now poised for changes for the better. But let us never forget that...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson May 6, 2009 Though many might imagine faith and science as incompatible, religion and atomic science, at least, are natural bedfellows. Both lead their truest devotees into a troubled insomnia, staring...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by Douglas Roche May 6, 2009 In the first 100 days of his presidency, Barack Obama has started to move the United States towards a culture of peace, a remarkable achievement in a world still torn by conflict. His actions on winding down the war in Iraq,...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
The Edmonton Journal by Douglas Roche May 6, 2009 The consultation process launched by the Alberta government to determine if a nuclear power plant should be built in the Peace River area appears designed to dampen any opposition to the plan....
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Huffington Post by Kim Cranston May 4, 2009 Climate change is not humanity’s greatest challenge (even though scientists predict it may unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration in 20 years, and increase the global surface temperature up to...
