Jonathan Granoff

The debate over what should be done about the risk that Iran might be developing nuclear weapons is likely to continue regardless of the specific outcome of recent negotiations. That a possible future failure of these negotiations could lead to war is dubiously legal, under both national as well as...

We hear a great deal of bravado on the best way to respond to the international security threat posed by Iran. The mantra of having "all options on the table" should include the many options beyond just increased sanctions and military force.

It would be very dangerous...

Yesterday all across America, we celebrated the action taken by 56 white men in Philadelphia in 1776.

How oppressive were the British toward the colonies? Were there summary executions for dissenters?

Were leaders disappearing at the hands of midnight death squads? Was the real issue for which men were willing...

As the health impact of smoking became better known to Americans, the practice eventually diminished. The cigarette industry decided to look beyond US borders. Huge amounts of money are spent convincing teenagers in the so-called "developing" world that this cancer-causing product defines their entry into adulthood.

Fast...

I've just returned from Hiroshima where Nobel Peace Laureates gathered for a three-day summit to renew their efforts to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons. After hearing testimonies of hibakusha, or survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan, as well as a slate of inspirational speeches from international advocates and...

The 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will meet in Hiroshima, Japan, on November 12-14, and the Laureates, including President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama, are asking US President Barack Obama -- the 2009 Nobel recipient -- to join them.

The 2010 Laureate Liu Xiaobo...

The natural world has value independent of the markets of man, and we ignore this fact at our peril.

Corporations and states can no longer operate as if they are independent of the natural world. Nature will not bend beyond limits to fulfill corporate growth. Corporations, states and individuals must...

A few years ago, Lawrence Bender and Jeffrey Skoll set out to make a new documentary about nuclear weapons, a film which would act as a wake up call to the imperative of nuclear abolition, just as their last project, An Inconvenient Truth, galvanized public discourse--and action--surrounding climate change. Teamed...

By Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger

President Obama's historic Security Council summit on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation should be seen for what it is: an extremely important step towards a safer, saner, more secure planet.

The September 24th summit resulted in the adoption of a resolution that reaffirms...

Nuclear weapons are abhorrent in anyone's hands.

Imagine if the Biological Weapons Convention said that polio and small pox as weapons are banned universally but the plague as a weapon can be brandished and held at the ready by nine countries because these special countries are uniquely moral, restrained,...

Dear President-elect Obama,

Our hearts join the chorus of hearts singing with joy that you have been elected President of the United States.

A two-class apartheid world, with nuclear weapon "haves" and "have nots", is incompatible with the cooperation needed to effectively protect the global commons, address crushing poverty,...

Shopping alone in the red light district for a trusted partner is counterintuitive, when applied to international security issues, it becomes downright dangerous.

Last year, the United States properly condemned North Korea for testing nuclear weapons. However, when the nations of the world voted for a universal,...