PNND Annual Assembly 2014

Mar 5, 2014 | Events

The network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) held a resoundingly successful Annual Assembly in Washington, DC, February 25-28, 2014. US Senator Ed Markey functioned as honorary Chair of the event, which was organized...

GSI eAlert: Articles of Interest

Jul 26, 2012 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Michael Douglas, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

Recently, several members of GSI’s leadership have been in the media: Middle Powers Initiative Chairman Emeritus Douglas Roche, O.C., published an op/ed in Embassy magazine calling on Canada and other middle powers to support US President Barack Obama’s...

Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World

Jul 12, 2012 | Events

Special Book Promotion at the United Nations May 5, 2009 Project Report by Sarah Webb On May 5, 2009, the United Nations Bookstore hosted a special event to promote the book, “Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World,” edited by Manpreet Sethi and published by...

India’s Prime Minister Supports Nuclear Disarmament

Jul 12, 2012 | Events

New Delhi, India — In a statement that could have far-reaching consequences in the struggle to rid the world of nuclear weapons in a time-bound framework, the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, told an international conference June 9-10 in New Delhi:...

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...

Purpose, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  by David Krieger counterpunch.org August 26-28, 2011   Recently, a friend sent me a copy of Admiral Hyman Rickover’s 1982 Morgenthau Memorial Lecture.  The lecture, given under the auspices of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International...

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...

Bridging the Reality Gap

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  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?

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

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...

Countdown to Zero: A compelling film with a critical message

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  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...

Cutting the Gordian Knot

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  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...

President Obama Is on the Right Track

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

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...

Thinking the Unthinkable on Nuclear Policy

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  The Huffington Post by Alyn Ware November 9, 2009   In late September, President Obama chaired the UN Security Council as it adopted an unprecedented resolution on non-proliferation and global nuclear disarmament, vague on the details perhaps, but...

Evangelical Voices Against Nukes

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Washington Post/Newsweek by GSI Board Member Tyler Wigg Stevenson   Even a casual student of American politics must wonder what evangelicals are doing at the vanguard of a new movement toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. After all, the anti-Communism of a...

A Nuclear-Weapons-Free World: Is it achievable?

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

UN Chronicle by Miguel Marin-Bosch   After the worst of times, we are perhaps entering the best of times for proponents of nuclear disarmament. At long last, advocates of the elimination of nuclear weapons have reason for some guarded optimism. The road to a...

Evangelicals join the nuclear-weapon-free world movement

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson May 6, 2009 Though many might imagine faith and science as incompatible, religion and atomic science, at least, are natural bedfellows. Both lead their truest devotees into a troubled insomnia, staring...

‘Toward a Nuclear-Free World’: Reaganites against the bomb

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

April 2008 Sojourners by Tyler Wigg Stevenson and Jessica Wilbanks Reprinted with permission. +1 (800) 714-7474 In January 4, 2007, former Reagan administration officials George Shultz and Henry Kissinger joined Democrats William Perry and Sam Nunn in publishing...