Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Bridging the Reality Gap
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff December 1, 2010 I've just returned from Hiroshima where Nobel Peace Laureates gathered for a three-day summit to renew their efforts to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons. After hearing testimonies of...
An Ottawa Process for Nukes?
Embassy by Alyn Ware November 10, 2010 In 1996, Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy invited 'like-minded States' to Ottawa to draft a treaty banning landmines- bypassing negotiations on a more limited landmines control regime that were bogged down in...
Nobel Peace Laureates’ Summit: Inspiration From Hiroshima
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff November 4, 2010 The 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will meet in Hiroshima, Japan, on November 12-14, and the Laureates, including President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama, are asking US President Barack...
The Human Capacity for Creativity and Destruction: How Will It All Play Out?
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff October 18, 2010 The natural world has value independent of the markets of man, and we ignore this fact at our peril. Corporations and states can no longer operate as if they are independent of the natural world....
Countdown to Zero: A compelling film with a critical message
Tikkun, and re-published in the Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger July 29, 2010 A few years ago, Lawrence Bender and Jeffrey Skoll set out to make a new documentary about nuclear weapons, a film which would act as a wake up...
Re-thinking Israeli Security
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...
Cutting the Gordian Knot
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...
Principles and Process
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...
Will Canada go the non-proliferation distance?
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...
President Obama Is on the Right Track
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...