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PNND Participates in UN High Level Meeting on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
On October 2, 2020, 77 Heads of State and Ministers addressed the United Nations High Level Meeting on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, hosted by the President of the UN General Assembly. This year's level of participation indicates widespread global concern,...
Euractiv Media Op Ed: Leading the way to a world free of nuclear weapons
Today more than ever, the world needs leadership in the field of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Kazakhstan keeps providing this leadership, writes Jonathan Granoff. In 1949, the first of over 450 nuclear explosive tests, surprised the residents in towns...
Joint Letter: Nuclear War Cannot be Won and Must Never be Fought
NUCLEAR WAR CANNOT BE WON AND MUST NEVER BE FOUGHT REAGAN-GORBACHEV DECLARATION OF 1986 SHOULD BE REAFFIRMED BY GOVERNMENTS EACH NUCLEAR ARMED STATE SHOULD RENOUNCE ANY AND ALL OPTIONS INVOLVING THE INITIATION OF NUCLEAR WARFARE. Dear Delegates to UNGA, First...
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GSI In Conversation With…
A new series of video conversations between GSI President Jonathan Granoff and the people who have helped to shape the world on nuclear disarmament.
GSI In Conversation With…
A new series of video conversations between GSI President Jonathan Granoff and the people who have helped to shape the world on nuclear disarmament.
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The Deadly Consequences of Nuclear War
Two articles on nucleardarkness.org that explain in detail the effects of even a limited nuclear engagement on our world. Nuclear War Threatens Human Existence City on Fire by Lynn Eden
The Man Who Saved the World
A 2013 feature-length Danish documentary film now available on Netflix. By filmmaker Peter Anthony, The Man Who Saved the World is the story of Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, and his role in preventing the 1983 Soviet...
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American Bar Association Dialogue with Under Secretary General Izumi Nakamitsu and Jonathan Granoff
Watch an inspiring dialogue on "Matters that Matter," with United Nations Under Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu and GSI President Jonathan Granoff, Chairman of the Task Force on Nuclear Nonproliferation and President of the Global Security...
The First Earth Day: Senator Alan Cranston
April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day. And GSI co-founder Senator Alan Cranston was at UC Davis to make it memorable: watch video here
Mikhail Gorbachev: When The Pandemic Is Over, The World Must Come Together
During the first months of this year, we have seen once again how fragile is our global world, how great the danger of sliding into chaos. The COVID-19 pandemic is facing all countries with a common threat, and no country can cope with it alone. The immediate...
Videos: UN International Day of Conscience
On April 5, 2020, dignitaries and artists gathered virtually to celebrate the UN International Day of Conscience. Global Security Institute is proud to have participated in the organization of the event, along with two of GSI's Advisory Board members, Jane Goodall and...
Message from Director-General World Health Organization
A message from Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the World Health Organization, for the UN International Day of Conscience:
Jonathan Granoff Message for UN International Day of Conscience
Video Message: Jonathan Granoff Enjoy the message from GSI President Jonathan Granoff for the UN International Day of Conscience. Reflections on United Nations Day of Conscience “Promoting A Culture of Peace With Love and Conscience” And Golden Rule Day Jonathan...
Mikhail Gorbachev: No One Else Can Hide
From the Interfax News Agency, April 2, 2020: Former USSR President calls for revision of world agenda under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic Moscow. April 2 INTERFAX.RU - The first and only President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev answered the questions of...
Newsweek: ‘National Security’ Is too Crude to protect Us From Pandemics
JONATHAN GRANOFF AND BARRY KELLMAN ON 3/17/20 AT 3:46 PM EDT Whose security is threatened by the coronavirus? The Chinese, the Italians, the Americans? The answer, of course, is everyone's security is threatened. The virus has no regard for national identity. It...
The Pope and Nuclear Deterrence: Georgetown Conference
Also see: The Georgetown Initiative: Responsible Investing for a Sustainable FutureOn January 31, 2020, experts gathered at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., to address challenges and solutions to the current crisis in nuclear non-proliferation and...
The Georgetown Initiative: Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Future
It is time that institutions of higher calling – universities and places of worship – use their financial resources in a manner consistent with their values. Would the endowment of any major university invest in pornographic films protected by the First Amendment and...
New York City hearings pave the way for nuclear weapons divestment
On Tuesday last week (January 28), New York City Council held public hearings on two measures (draft Resolution 0976 and Initiative 1621) which if adopted would oblige the city to divest its city pension funds from the nuclear weapons industry and establish an...
Granoff Presentation — Guidance for a Nuclear Weapons Free World: The Pope and the Ban Treaty
Conference Presentation The Pope and the Bomb: Beyond Deterrence Georgetown University, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs January 30, 2020 Jonathan Granoff. President Global Security Institute, Representative to the United Nations of the World...
JAN 29: TESTIMONY BEFORE NEW YORK CITY CITY COUNCIL
On January 28, 2020 GSI President will be presenting testimony before the New York City Council on behalf of Move the Nuclear Money campaign, of which GSI is a founding member, in support of the creation of an Advisory Committee to examine nuclear disarmament issues,...
GSI President in The Hill: Senator-jurors who may not be impartial? Remove them for cause
GSI President Jonathan Granoff in The Hill: As President Donald Trump's impeachment trial opened, Chief Justice John Roberts swore in all the members of the U.S. Senate who made an oath to "do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help me...
GSI President in The Hill: Senators, keep your oaths (‘so help you God’)
GSI President Jonathan Granoff in The Hill: On the divisive question of President Donald Trump’s Senate trial and whether it should or shouldn’t lead to his removal from office, it is important to remember something we risk forgetting: the oaths that senators take....