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Newsweek: Trump’s Nuclear Treaty Withdrawal Weakened the West and Unleashed Russia
A groundbreaking article was published by Newsweek today, authored by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., a member of GGI's Board of Directors and Co-Chair of the Nonpartisan Security group, and GSI President Jonathan Granoff, on the ramifications of the U.S....
Newsweek: The Shutdown Crisis is Far Worse than Either Party Realizes
GSI President GSI in Newsweek: "In his recent Oval Office speech, President Trump invoked humanitarian motives, fears of beheadings, and even God to justify shutting down the government until he gets $5 billion for a wall to “protect” the U.S. border with...
Granoff in The Hill : US doesn’t have the right to violate Iran nuclear deal
By Jonathan Granoff Published in The Hill The Trump Administration has just walked away from the United States’ commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known in the American media as "the Iran Deal." But it’s not an informal “deal;” it’s a...
“The Turtle, The Horse and Nuclear Weapons” by Jonathan Granoff
Presently, neither leadership nor support in the pursuit of nuclear disarmament can be expected from the nuclear weapons states. They have not vigorously pursued the incremental steps for which there is enormous international support to help make us safer and...
Banning Nuclear Weapons – An Auspicious Start
Read the piece by Sergio Duarte, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Banning Nuclear Weapons – An Auspicious Start
By Sergio Duarte, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs* Originally posted on IndepthNews.net NEW YORK (IDN) - Despite being shunned by the nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies, the first part of the negotiations mandated by the...
The Shame and Horror of Nuclear Weapons
by William Swing and Tyler Wigg Stevenson The following excerpt originally appeared on TheWeek.com on August 7, 2015. [...] As preachers, we know that the Bible's Psalms tell us that "the days of our years are threescore and ten." By that counting, then, the bomb has...
The Iran Deal: Steps Toward the Common Good
This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post, August 3, 2015. We should be grateful to the diplomats for ensuring no further proliferation of nuclear weapons in a volatile region. The Iran Deal demonstrates that when powerful nations identify a common...
President Obama: A Chance to Lead
The below article, by Jonathan Granoff, was originally published in the Huffington Post on May 2, 2015. This month at the United Nations, 190 nations will gather to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which constrains the spread of nuclear weapons and...
Nuclear non-proliferation: We must keep working for a world without nuclear weapons (yes, it’s possible)
by James Goodby and Steven Pifer April 24, 2015 At the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference later this month at the United Nations, the five nuclear weapon states recognized by the Treaty—the United States, Russia, Britain, France, and China—will come in for...