Disaster Spotlights Need for International Action

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 September 23, 2001 By Kim Cranston and Laura Mcgrath Moulton San Jose Mercury News Since World War II, humanity has mastered extraordinary challenges. We can orbit the earth. We can transplant organs. We can travel faster than sound, and we can communicate...

Missile Defense a Threat

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 August 11, 2001 By Jonathan Dean and Jonathan Granoff Chicago Sun Times Commentary In their July 22 meeting in Genoa, Italy, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to consider the topics of national missile defense and further cuts in nuclear...

Addressing the Cold War’s Unfinished Business

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 June 4, 2000 By Alan Cranston and Tad Daley Los Angeles Times When Air Force One touched down in Moscow yesterday, nuclear politics again took center stage, just as they did so often during the Cold War. Nearly three decades ago, the Nixon administration and the...

Fail Safe Remains a Tale for Our Times

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 April 5, 2000 By Alan Cranston Global Beat Syndicate SAN FRANCISCO — This Sunday, a live television drama will reintroduce millions of viewers to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The CBS television network will broadcast a remake of Fail Safe, the...

U.S. Must Rethink Its Nuclear Policy

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 June 9, 1998 By Alan Cranston San Francisco Chronicle India’s and Pakistan’s nuclear tests reveal the impotence of current policies intended to prevent proliferation. Moralizing appeals, threats of sanctions and offers of military and economic aid...

Nukes Beget Nukes: Away with Bombs

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 November 16, 1999 By Alan Cranston San Francisco Examiner 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...

NATO and Peace Would Gain from a No-First-Use Policy

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

December 15, 1999 By Thomas Graham, Jr., Robert Mcnamara and Jack MendelsohnL.A. Times We believe it is critical for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to reconsider its nuclear policy and agree to a no-first-use provision on nuclear weapons. Such a policy would...

A Nuclear Crisis

Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds

 February 23, 2000 By Jimmy Carter Washington Post  Every five years, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) comes up for reassessment by the countries that have signed it. This is the treaty that provides for international restraints (and inspections) on...

Preserving the Rule of Law to Resolve Iran Impasse

Jun 8, 2012 | Op Eds

GSI President Jonathan Granoff was featured in The Huffington Post, with an important article highlighting the special duty of America to follow the rule of law in addressing the international challenge of Iran. Regarding Iran, America Must Look to the Constitution...

Op-eds on IHL

May 22, 2012 | Op Eds

Valuable Approach to Advance the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Announcing Articles in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and the Fordham International Law Journal Dear Friend: “Nuclear weapons are unworthy of civilization.” Senator Alan Cranston, founder...

Op Ed: Addressing the nuclear threat

May 22, 2012 | Op Eds

Op-ed By Jonathan Granoff Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Click here for the original publication Religious leaders gathering this week at the Festival of Faiths in Louisville must make a forceful call to forge a consensus of conscience and reason: Nuclear weapons are...

Forsaking Space Weapons Would Spur Peace

May 22, 2012 | Op Eds

Op-ed by Rhianna Tyson Click here for the original publication at Commondreams.org Tensions, it seems, between the US and Russia heighten daily. Increasingly hostile rhetoric is slung from both sides in a tactical volley best characterized as dumb and dumber. One...

Editorials on START

May 22, 2012 | Op Eds

See below for two new pieces on START– the new treaty between the US and Russia which aims to reduce each country’s arsenal to no more than 1,550 deployed warheads– by GSI leadership. Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.’s letter to the editor on...

Forsaking Space Weapons Would Spur Peace

May 22, 2012 | Op Eds

Op-ed by Rhianna Tyson Click here for the original publication at Commondreams.org Tensions, it seems, between the US and Russia heighten daily. Increasingly hostile rhetoric is slung from both sides in a tactical volley best characterized as dumb and dumber. One...

Toward a Nuclear-Free World: Reaganites against the bomb

May 22, 2012 | Op Eds

Op-ed by Tyler Wigg Stevenson and Jessica Wilbanks This article was originally published in Sojourners Magazine, April 2008. Reprinted with permission. +1 (800) 714-7474 In January 4, 2007, former Reagan administration officials George Shultz and Henry Kissinger...