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Iran Conference Report

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

 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

 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

 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

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...

A Nuclear Crisis

 February 23, 2000 By Jimmy Carter Washington Post  Every five years, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) comes up for reassessment by the countries that have signed it. This is the treaty that provides for international restraints (and inspections) on...

Preserving the Rule of Law to Resolve Iran Impasse

GSI President Jonathan Granoff was featured in The Huffington Post, with an important article highlighting the special duty of America to follow the rule of law in addressing the international challenge of Iran. Regarding Iran, America Must Look to the Constitution...

Policy Briefs and Reports

The following are policy briefs, major reports and publications of the Global Security Institute or our programs. Additional related items can be found in our documents section. For reports on individual events, please see our Event Reports. Books by GSI leaders are...

Op Ed by Doug Roche: Non-proliferation meets non-partisanship

Op-ed by Douglas Roche Embassy, December 15, 2010, p. 15 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...

Speech: The Justice They Deserve

By Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute Transcript of remarks made at the sixth Article VI Forum meeting, Berlin, Germany January 30, 2009   Click here for a printable PDF We should all be grateful for our host the Government of Germany in...

Op-eds on IHL

Valuable Approach to Advance the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Announcing Articles in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and the Fordham International Law Journal Dear Friend: “Nuclear weapons are unworthy of civilization.” Senator Alan Cranston, founder...

Op Ed: Addressing the nuclear threat

Op-ed By Jonathan Granoff Wednesday, November 7, 2007 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...

Forsaking Space Weapons Would Spur Peace

Op-ed by Rhianna Tyson Click here for the original publication at 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...

Iran Conference Report

Report 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...

Editorials on START

See below for two new pieces on START– the new treaty between the US and Russia which aims to reduce each country’s arsenal to no more than 1,550 deployed warheads– by GSI leadership. Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.’s letter to the editor on...

Presentation: Words Into Action

Presentation delivered at the Forum for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World by GSI President Jonathan Granoff Astana – Semey, Kazakhstan October 11-13, 2011 It is an honor and privilege to be here with so many deeply committed people whose efforts to end threats posed...