Nuclear non-proliferation: We must keep working for a world without nuclear weapons (yes, it’s possible) by James Goodby and Steven Pifer

Apr 24, 2015 | China, France, Global Security Institute, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., UK, Weapons of Mass Destruction

At the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference later this month at the United Nations, the five nuclear weapon states recognized by the Treaty—the United States, Russia, Britain, France, and China—will come in for critical scrutiny from an international community...

Nuclear Talks: Will it Play in Persepolis?

Dec 9, 2014 | Iran, Op Eds

Originally published by Foreign Policy, November 21, 2014 by Nancy Gallagher For the first time in more than a decade, the United States and Iran are both pushing hard to resolve their long-standing disagreements about Tehran’s nuclear program. Making that investment...

Advancing a Comprehensive Ban on Nuclear Weapons Testing – A GSI Activities Report

Nov 7, 2013 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Michael Douglas, Policy Briefs and Reports

The Global Security Institute (GSI) remains committed to achieving a permanent prohibition against nuclear weapons testing. A New Proposal We are engaged in expert consultations based on a new proposal by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., Chairman of GSI’s...

Strategy Session on the NPT

Jul 23, 2012 | Events

Event report by Irfan Ahmed, Rhianna Tyson Kreger and Jesse Ziegler   Over 75 ambassadors, experts and UN staff attended the event.   On Tuesday, March 16, 2010, the Global Security Institute held a briefing for ambassadors, diplomats and non-governmental...

Reagan & Reykjavik

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by James Goodby and Nathan Pyles The Hill November 21, 2011   The world recently marked the 25th anniversary of the historic Reykjavik summit, when President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in a simple clapboard house in...

International Security on the Road to Nuclear Security

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Dr. Nancy Gallagher The Nonproliferation Review June 2011 The disappointingly slow pace of progress on efforts to prevent proliferation, reduce nuclear weapons, and eliminate nuclear risks has many causes. The factor that might be easiest for individuals in the...

Stepping into the Biopolicy Breach

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...

Arms Control Has Been Bipartisan

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...

North Korea and Six Party Talks: Resolving a Nuclear Crisis

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

by Kevin Davis Disarmament Times Fall 2008, Vol. 31, No.3 August 11 was the day many expected North Korea to be removed from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism as a result of Pyongyang’s progress towards dismantling its nulear program....

Nuclear Weapons: What Obama actually said on deterrence

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

 August 1, 2008 The Washington Times by John Hollum The Washington Times recently published an op-ed by Peter Huessy (“Playing games with U.S. security, Obama’s feel-good approach puts nuclear deterrent at risk”) which mischaracterized Sen....

The Test of Leadership

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

The Washington Times July 9, 2008 by James Goodby Much has been written about what the next president’s priorities should be. Iraq? Health care? The environment? The economy? Seldom mentioned is a danger many Americans have chosen to forget – the atom...

Old thinking about a new threat

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

June 8, 2007 Theodore Postol and James Goodby New York Times PALO ALTO, California — President Vladimir Putin’s compromise proposal to President George W. Bush concerning the U.S. ballistic missile defense system currently slated to be installed in Poland...

Don’t Make Mini-Nukes

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

June 9, 2003 By John Holum International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON, DC–Even as U.S. forces struggle to consolidate victory in a war justified largely to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the White House is preparing to build and test new nuclear weapons...

GSI eNewsletter: January 8, 2007

May 22, 2012 | Newsletter

January 8, 2007 A message from GSI President Jonathan Granoff Dear Friends,     Testimony before the US Congressional Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations     On September 26, 2006, BSG Chairman Ambassador...