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International Policies to Reduce Biothreat, a Briefing on Capitol Hill Sponsored by the Bipartisan Security Group
Thursday, November 15th, 2006 12-2pm Room B-354, Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC - Former chief US weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay, will be part of a lunchtime panel discussion on developing international policies to reduce the threats from...
The United Nations and Security – Event Report by Adam Nester, United Nations, New York
United Nations, NY - On October 11, 2006 a panel convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York entitled The United Nations and Security. The purpose of the panel was to bring experts and practitioners in the fields of development, human rights, gender...
Global Security Institute Experts Testify Before Congress – Event Report by Adam Nester – Washington, DC
Washington, DC - On September 26, 2006 a hearing was held by the in House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations entitled "Weapons of Mass Destruction: Current Nuclear Proliferation...
Testimony before the US Congressional Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Testimony before the US Congressional Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations On September 26, 2006, Bipartisan Security Group Chairman Ambassador Thomas Graham and I had...
GSI Experts Testify Before Congress
Washington, DC - On September 26, 2006 a hearing was held by the In House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations entitled "Weapons of Mass Destruction: Current Nuclear Proliferation Challenges."...
Dropping Knowledge
Dropping Knowledge invites you to ask and answer questions covering social themes of global significance. When you ask in order to understand, when you answer in order to share, this is what we mean by dropping knowledge. Jonathan Granoff answers the question: How do...
Get Rid of Nukes, Diplomat Advises – Roger Snodgrass, L.A. Monitor
Get Rid of Nukes, Diplomat Advises Roger Snodgrass, LA Monitor July 9, 2006 A senior American diplomat with decades of international disarmament experience called on the United States to lead the world toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Speaking to a Los...
Remembering the Marshall Islands – Op-Ed from the San Francisco Chronicle by Jane Goodall and Rick Asselta
As a result of nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands 60 years ago, many of the Marshallese Islanders still suffer today. Yet, few Americans know about this shameful chapter of history. Today, June 30, which marks a painful anniversary for many in the South Pacific,...
Nuclear Abolition in the Context of World Peace
PNND's Global Coordinator, Alyn Ware, discusses nuclear abolition at the World Peace Forum in Vancouver, June 2006.
GSI eNewsletter: June 2, 2006
Contents: GSI Experts to Work Closely with WMD Commission Middle Powers Initiative to Conduct High-Level Delegation to Canada GSI Experts Represent International Peace Bureau at Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in South Korea Read the eNewsletter
Get Rid of Nukes, Diplomat Advices – Roger Snodgrass, LA Monitor
A senior American diplomat with decades of international disarmament experience called on the United States to lead the world toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Speaking to a Los Alamos arms control committee this week, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr....
Say No to the US-India Deal by Jonathan Granoff and David Krieger – Common Dreams
George W. Bush thought that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He was wrong. Now Mr. Bush has returned from India, and has proposed a nuclear deal that he believes will help both the Indian and American people. He is wrong again. Mr. Bush wants to...
A Dangerous Deal with India by Jimmy Carter – The Washington Post
A Dangerous Deal with India by Jimmy Carter The Washington Post March 29, 2006 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...
Putting Teeth in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Regime by IAEA Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up It is a pleasure for me to deliver the 2006 Karlsruhe Lecture. My wife asked me a few days ago why I was so excited to be visiting a group of...
State Department see Exodus of Weapons Experts by Warren Strobel – Knight Ridder Newspapers
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up WASHINGTON - State Department officials appointed by President Bush have sidelined key career weapons experts and replaced them with less...
GSI eNewsletter: January 1, 2006
Contents: Message from the President Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala joins GSI Advisory Board Highlight of Activities: - MPI Article VI Forum in New York - PNND 2005 Report - General Conference of OPANAL, Santiago, Chile - PNND Assembly, Seoul, Republic of Korea - Panel...
Space Weapons and the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War – Arms Control Today
The United States and Russia maintain thousands of nuclear warheads on long-range ballistic missiles on 15-minute alert. Once launched, they cannot be recalled, and they will strike their targets in roughly 30 minutes. Fifteen years after the end of the Cold...
ElBaradei Accepts Nobel Prize – The Associated Press – Nobel laureate Says World Must Abandon Nuclear Weapons
Oslo, Norway - Fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, the risk of nuclear disaster is as great as ever with terrorists zealously pursuing atomic weapons, chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei said Saturday in accepting the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize....
No One Wins in the Nuclear Arms Race by David Hutter, Quinnipiac Chronicle
"The more we build these weapons to keep us safe, the less safe we become." These words came from Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute, an agency committed to the elimination of nuclear weapons, to students and community members on Oct....
Space Security: Core Issues and Questions – Event Report by John Koogler, GSI Sarah Estabrooks, Project Ploughshares – United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up United Nations, New York - On October 11, 2005, The Global Security Institute and the (Space Security Index (SSI)) co-hosted an event at the United...
GSI eNewsletter: September 7, 2005
HONORING A MAN WHO REMEMBERED HIS HUMANITY Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005) Dear Friends: One of the most engaged and well-respected members of the GSI Board of Advisors, Sir Joseph Rotblat, died on August 31, 2005. The world has lost one the greatest men...
The Process in Place by Rose Gottemoeller
The Process in Place By Rose Gottemoeller The New York Times Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Washington - Negotiators in Beijing have left the most recent round of the six-nation talks on stability and nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula confronted with a North...
Iran: A Crisis of Choice by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
Iran: A Crisis Of Choice By Amb. Thomas Graham, Jr. Tompaine.com August 15, 2005 The controversy over the Iranian nuclear program is neither a new issue nor is it a crisis. But if the United States does not handle this issue carefully, the result could be that Iran...
GSI eNewsletter: August 10, 2005
Contents: 1. MPI Chairman delivers address for 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing, Hiroshima, Japan 2. MPI Chairman interview on Australian Broadcast Radio 3. Texts of testimonies by Hiroshima Mayor Akiba and Nagasaki 4. Mayor Itoh to the International Court of...
Peace Declaration on the 60th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima – Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba – Speech Delivered to the Annual Peace Memorial Ceremony
Hiroshima, Japan This August 6, the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing, is a moment of shared lamentation in which more than 300 thousand souls of A-bomb victims and those who remain behind transcend the boundary between life and death to remember that day. It is...
Hiroshima Film Cover-Up Exposed by Greg Mitchell – Editor & Publisher
In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military...
Shunning the Talks Table by Wade Boese – The American Prospect
By Bush administration officials' accounts, there is no greater threat than nuclear terrorism, and no government takes that danger more seriously than ours does. Yet the administration's insistence on getting its own way and refusal to discuss other countries'...
A Promising Direction for G8 Leadership by Rose Gottemoeller
A Promising Direction for G8 Leadership By Rose Gottemoeller The Moscow Times July 8, 2005 At the close of the Gleneagles Summit this week, Russia will take over leadership of the Group of Eight, the "super club" of countries that in theory are driving the...
Apocalypse Soon by Robert McNamara – Foreign Policy
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we've come. His counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe during...
GSI eNewsletter: June 15, 2005
Dear Friends: The 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference did not accomplish much needed progress in nuclear non-proliferation or disarmament. Renewed efforts to make the world safer have become more urgent. The interim report below tells how a...