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“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...
The Iran Deal is a Terrible Blow… To War Profiteers (Theirs and Ours)
The below article, by Jonathan Granoff, was originally published in the Huffington Post on April 29, 2015. A deal with verifiable measure that helps prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for taking steps to help it normalize its relationships with...
Pope Francis’ Latest Mission: Stopping Nuclear Weapons (TIME Magazine)
The below article, regarding Pope Francis' recent statement and the April 9 event which GSI co-hosted with the Holy See to highlight it, was originally published by TIME on Friday, April 10. The original version can be found here. By Elizabeth Dias - TIME Magazine: ...
Nuke deal a good one if making Iran part of world community (TREND News)
The below article was originally published on March 15, 2015 in Farsi by TREND News. The translated version can be found here. Baku, Azerbaijan, March 15 By Khalid Kazimov - Trend: A nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 will be a good one if it brings Iran out into...