Strategy Session on the NPT

Event report  by Irfan Ahmed, Rhianna Tyson Kreger and Jesse Ziegler March 16, 2010   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...

“The Limits of Unilateralism” By Amb. Thomas Graham, Jr.

Remarks by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.Washington, DC October 2, 2003 Disarmament, arms control, is not a new issue. In the Middle Ages, the Pope outlawed the crossbow declaring it to be “hateful to God and unfit for Christians.” However, the crossbow was...

The Obama Nuclear Security Summit

April 11, 2010 On TV New Zealand, Alyn Ware explains how President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit this week in Washington is part of a series of initiatives to prevent nuclear proliferation and achieve nuclear disarmament – the most important of which...

James Goodby on US-Russian Nuclear Arms Negotiations

September 24, 2009   BSG Member Ambassador James Goodby, Hoover Institution, Stanford University is a guest lecturer at the “US-Russian START Plus Arms Control Simulation” at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Ambassador Goodby talks...

GSI eNewsletter: July 4, 2008

Dear friends, July 4 reminds me that ‘miracles really do happen in the course of human events.’ Below are some positive reports, a bit short of the miraculous but valuable all the same. On June 9-10, in New Delhi, India, there was a small high-level...

GSI and BSG Events in Washington, DC

On May 3 and 4, 2007, a delegation comprised of Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., Chairman of the Bipartisan Security Group, Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, and Dr. Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Commission,...

Testimony before the US Congressional Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations

Dear Friends and Colleagues,     Testimony before the US Congressional Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations     On September 26, 2006, Bipartisan Security Group Chairman Ambassador Thomas Graham and I had...

There Is Still Hope

Testimony by Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE Washington, DC October 2, 2003 Chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than any other animal, sharing approximately 99% of their DNA with ours. They are capable of intellectual behaviors once thought unique to us. They use and...

A Place to Work Together

Testimony by Michael DouglasWashington, DC October 2, 2003 It is a great honor to be here with you, especially because of the example set by the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation and its co chairs Congressman Chris Shays and Ed Markey. I would also like to...