GSI eNewsletter: July 2011
Message from the President MPI Activities – New Brief: “A Global Law to Ban Nuclear Weapons” – Ottawa Seminar – World Capital Tour – InterAction Council – Swiss Seminar on Irreversibility – Geneva Consultation – Promoting the Rule of Law DPE Activities – United Religions Initiative – Newark Peace Education Summit – India urged to […]
MPI Recommendations to the NPT Review Conference
April 14, 2010 The Middle Powers Initiative, based on the results of the Atlanta Consultation III and the series of Article VI Forums, recommends the following policy options to the 2010 NPT Review Conference: 1. Disarmament: Reaffirm the unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of nuclear arsenals. Encourage states parties, especially the nuclear weapon […]
GSI E-Alert: Extraordinary Week at the United Nations
Dear friends, This has been an historic week at the United Nations. The US President chairing a summit of the Security Council and its adoption of a far reaching resolution on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation is extraordinary. Moreover, it is indicative that we are on the road towards a safer planet. The Global Security Institute […]
GSI eNewsletter: June 2009
Contents: A Message from the President GSI Activities – “Voices of Experience,” UN Panel Event – Meeting with the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – Briefing at the UN: Human Development is National Security – Book Launch at the United Nations – CTBT Briefing and Strategy Session with the Government of Austria MPI Activities […]
GSI eNewsletter: October 30, 2008
Dear friends, The hopes of the world are focused on the US presidential election. It is probably the most important election in recent history. The collective challenges facing the world are daunting: the very health of the global commons – the oceans, rainforests and climate, living systems upon which civilization depends – are at risk, […]
ABA Teleconference: Law, US Security and Nuclear Weapons: The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty and Beyond
A teleconference with the American Bar Association’s Section on International Law This teleconference brings together three of the most prominent speakers on nuclear arms control: Acting US Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller, US Department of State; Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., a retired senior US diplomat involved in the negotiation of […]
Contributions of the United Nations System in Advancing the Entry-Into-Force of the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty: Briefing and Strategy Session
Event report by Rhianna Tyson, GSI Senior Officer *April 3, 2009 New York, NY Click here for transcripts, photos, fact sheets and more On April 3, 2009, the Permanent Mission of Austria and the Global Security Institute held a special briefing on a lynchpin issue on the international arms control agenda. Over 40 ambassadors, experts […]
Nuclear Testing and Proliferation: An Inextricable Connection
Disarmament Diplomacy by Thomas Graham, J.r and David Hafemeister President Obama’s call in Prague to complete the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was widely praised on the global stage. But what will be entailed for the United States to ratify the CTBT and reinvigorate international efforts to secure the remaining signatures and ratifications […]
U.S. Must Rethink Its Nuclear Policy
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 for not testing have done nothing to contain the crisis. Broader efforts by the Clinton administration also failed to […]
NATO and Peace Would Gain from a No-First-Use Policy
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 be a signal to the international community that the most powerful nations in […]