Will Canada go the non-proliferation distance?

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

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

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...

Japan and NATO Are Ready for the US to Reduce Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Huffington Post by Alyn Ware February 18, 2010   It has been nearly a year since President Obama’s now famous Prague speech, announcing America’s commitment to a nuclear weapons-free future. A key test of that commitment is at hand: the current U. S....

Biological weapons hazards

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

LA Times LTE by Barry Kellman December 16, 2009   Characterizing the Obama administration’s decision to not support international monitoring of the Biological Weapons Convention as “ducking the issue” manifests a serious misunderstanding of how...

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...

A Well-Deserved Nobel Prize

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  The Edmonton Journal by Douglas Roche   “But he hasn’t done anything yet!” That sentence was on the lips of skeptics the minute they heard that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. The doubters are wrong. Obama has...

One Small Step for the Council, One Giant Leap for Humankind

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger   President Obama’s historic Security Council summit on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation should be seen for what it is: an extremely important step towards a safer, saner, more secure...

Nuclear Testing and Proliferation: An Inextricable Connection

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Disarmament Diplomacy by Thomas Graham, J.r and David Hafemeister   President Obama’s call in Prague to complete the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was widely praised on the global stage. But what will be entailed for the United States to...

Nuclear Weapons Free: Let’s Support President Obama

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Huffington Post by GSI President Jonathan Granoff August 27, 2009   Nuclear weapons are abhorrent in anyone’s hands. Imagine if the Biological Weapons Convention said that polio and small pox as weapons are banned universally but the plague as a weapon can...

Japan ready for ‘no nukes’

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

The Japan Times by Shingo Fukuyama and MPI Steering Committee member Hiromichi Umebayashi August 25, 2009   As the Obama administration contemplates major reductions to its nuclear arsenal, Japan’s commitment to nuclear disarmament is being tested as never...

Obama Needs Friends on Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Embassy by MPI Chairman Emeritus Douglas Roche August 19, 2009   When President Barack Obama chairs a summit of the UN Security Council Sept. 24 on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, a new and exciting moment will have arrived in the long struggle...

Prophet Obama’s Fight for Peace

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Embassy by Douglas Roche May 6, 2009 In the first 100 days of his presidency, Barack Obama has started to move the United States towards a culture of peace, a remarkable achievement in a world still torn by conflict. His actions on winding down the war in Iraq,...

A Clarifying Call

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Disarmament Times by Rhianna Tyson Spring 2009 With the ushering in of the Obama administration, the mood of the international security community has drastically changed. We have moved far from that low point in May 2005, when the Review Conference of the...

Mr. Obama and Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Washington Post Letter to the Editor Thomas Graham, Jr. April 13, 2009 Anne Applebaum claimed that worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons was President Obama’s idea [“Yes, We Can . . . Disarm?” op-ed, April 7]. But President Ronald Reagan called...

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....

Obama at the Security Council

Sep 24, 2009 | Video Blog

September 24, 2009 Al Jazeera English channel interviews GSI President Jonathan Granoff moments after US President Barack Obama chairs a Summit of Heads of State of the Security Council.       » Read GSI’s Huffington Post analysis of the...