May 17, 2005 | Cold War, DPE, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation
Fifty years ago, I joined Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and eight others in signing a manifesto warning of the dire consequences of nuclear war. This statement, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, was Einstein’s final public act. He died shortly after signing...
Oct 14, 2001 | 9-11, Ambassador Dhanapala, Denuclearization, Disarmament, GSI News, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, United Nations
AboutGSI Who We Are What You CanDo Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter SignUp UNITED NATIONS — Delivering a clarion call for nuclear disarmament, former US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara was the focal point of...
Mar 14, 2000 | Cold War, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
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...
Nov 16, 1999 | Global Terrorism, Iraq, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
November 16, 1999 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 exterminated. The bomb has been developed further. One...
Jan 1, 1997 | Denuclearization, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
Former senator Alan Cranston was one of the chief architects behind the recent statement by 60 generals and admirals calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Since his retirement from the Senate in 1991, Cranston has served as Chairman of the Gorbachev...