Diverse Coalition Launches Campaign to Stop U.S. Nuclear Deal with India
January 16, 2008
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WASHINGTON, DC –The Bipartisan Security Group is one of twenty-three organizations which today launched a coalition to stop the Bush Administration’s proposed nuclear trade agreement with India.  The proposed agreement would exempt that nuclear-armed nation from longstanding U.S. and international restrictions on states that do not meet global standards to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

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International Policies to Reduce Bio Threats
November 11, 2007
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Washington, DC- Former chief US weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay, will be part of a lunchtime panel discussion on developing international policies to reduce the threats from biological weapons. The panel will explore the pressing threats from potential use of biological weapons by states and terrorists, as well as from accidental releases. The panel, organized by the Bipartisan Security Group, will examine the various cooperative responses the international community can take to counter these threats.

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Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs to Host Conference on Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming
September 18, 2007
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PITTSBURGH-The University of Pittsburgh's Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies will host a conference titled “Securing Our Survival-Meeting the Threats of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming,” at 9 a.m. Oct. 12 and 13, in the Teplitz Moot Courtroom, Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. The event will bring together internationally prominent scholars and policy analysts and community members to discuss threats that challenge the security of the world. The conference is being organized by the Ridgway Center, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Stanley Foundation.

The conference will feature several internationally known speakers, including, Thomas Graham, former special representative of the President of the United States for Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament; Joseph Cirincione, senior fellow and director for Nuclear Policy at the Center for American Progress, William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation; and Lisa Schirch, professor of peace building at Eastern Mennonite University and program director of the 3D Security Initiative.

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Get Rid of Nukes, Diplomat Advises
Roger Snodgrass, LA Monitor
July 9, 2006

A senior American diplomat with decades of international disarmament experience called on the United States to lead the world toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Speaking to a Los Alamos arms control committee this week, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. warned the group that his views have evolved from those he may have had as a former Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament.

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Kath Delaney, 415-383-7922 or 415-531-1642
Nadine Kjellberg, 610-668-5480 or 610-585-0844

What:
The House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation, in cooperation with the Bipartisan Security Group, will host a discussion on the limits of unilateralism at the U.S. Congress. In separate keynotes, Ambassador Thomas Graham,
Dr. Jane Goodall and Michael Douglas will urge U.S. policy makers to pursue greater cooperation -- both at home and abroad -- when addressing global security threats. Comments by Congressmen Ed Markey (D-MA), Christopher Shays (R-CT) and GSI President Jonathan Granoff as well as a dialogue with the audience will follow.