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By Douglas Roche
Beyond the widely publicized news of war, poverty, and human rights violations is the uplifting awakening of concern for our fellow human beings as nations are calling for a new global ethic to make the world a better place.
By looking at what we have achieved, we are able to provide hope and empowerment. A "Yes, I can make a difference" mentality allows us to break free of the immobilizing fear, affirming that the route to public policies built on global conscience is possible.
DOUGLAS ROCHE is an author, parliamentarian, and diplomat who specializes in peace and human security issues. He is a member of the Pugwash Council, which in 1995 won the Nobel Peace Prize for its work on nuclear disarmament. |
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By Barry Kellman
Bioviolence is the hostile infliction of disease: our most fundamental terror. Traitors to humanity could inflict vast tolls making everyone potentially vulnerable. Bioviolence is the most realistic way for humanity’s traitors to raze the pillars of modern civilization. Too little is being done to prevent bioviolence. While bio-offenders are becoming more focused and organized, prevention policies are vague, gap-ridden, and unsupervised. No other threat presents such severe danger yet such a failure of leadership to reduce risks. The strategy for preventing bioviolence requires a broad international commitment to promote bioscience while understanding its inherent and unavoidable dangers. Bioviolence threats shrink our planet into an interdependent neighborhood. This book explores how global governance should evolve to address challenges of advancing science and technology. |
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by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. and Keith A. Hansen
Published by University of Washington Press, 2007.
Much has been said and written about the failure of U.S. intelligence to prevent the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and its overestimation of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction under Saddam Hussein. This book focuses instead on the central role that intelligence-collection systems play in promoting arms control and disarmament.
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Keith Hansen bring more than fifty combined years of experience to this discussion of the capabilities of technical systems, which are primarily based in space. Their history of the rapid advancement of surveillance technology is a window into a dramatic reconceptualization of Cold War strategies and policy planning. Graham and Hansen focus on the intelligence successes against Soviet strategic nuclear forces and the quality of the intelligence that has made possible accurate assessments of WMD programs in North Korea, Iran, and Libya. Their important insights shed a much-needed light on the process of verifying how the world harnesses the proliferation of nuclear arms and the continual drive for advancements in technology. |
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by GSI Development Director Craig Eisendrath and Dr. Helen Caldicott.
Publilshed by The New Press, 2007.
When most of us think about the potential of outer space for future generations, we think of world communications, satellite navigation, and scientific exploration. U.S. Space Command, however, thinks about weapons. Believing that conflict in space and wars fought from space are inevitable, the president has called on the agency to weaponize outer space and thus provoke an arms race that could cost the United States trillions of dollars and could lead to the demise of the human race.
In War in Heaven, a Nobel Prize-nominated peace activist and a former U.S. foreign service officer (who helped write the Outer Space Treaty of 1967) look at the history of military uses of space and the current plans for "militarizing the heavens," including kinetic, laser, nuclear bombardment, and anti-satellite weapons. Contrary to the claims of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that the United States faces a "space Pearl Harbor," Caldicott and Eisendrath show that the United States itself is today the principal obstruction to passage of an international treaty banning weapons from outer space.
At a time when plans to build and deploy space weapons are on the administration's agenda but only just becoming known to the general public, this book will help launch a national discussion of a critical issue.
"War in Heaven will bring you up-to-date on the serious moves under way to weaponize space and tell you how we can act to cope with them. Once it is triggered, international cooperation for military control of space will make the Cold War nuclear standoff look tame."
- Ambassador Jonathan Dean, US Representative to the NATO-Warsaw Pact
Receive a free copy with your gift of $100 to the Global Security Institute. |
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by Bruce A. Roth
No Time To Kill is a holistic analysis of issues which threaten the extinction of life on a mass scale: WMDs, genocide, and terrorism. Roth focuses on these complex problems through the lenses of anthropology, psychology, tehology, sociology, law, physical science, politics and the history of war and weaponry in order to answer the most pressing questions today.
"No Time To Kill is a fascinating and informative work. It will be a valuable addition to my research library." - Walter Cronkite
"Warmest congratulations on your initaitive, not to mention your capacity to go straight to the heart of these complex issues, and to recognize the real elements of danger for us all in the continued retention of nuclear weapons." - Robert J. O'Neill, former Chairman of the Council, International Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Oxford.
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by Ambassador James E. Goodby
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (June 28, 2006)
In this important new work, scholar, teacher, and diplomat James E. Goodby analyzes how American presidents have confronted the dilemma of nuclear weapons. Drawing on his own involvement in over fifty years of nuclear policy, he explores specific case studies to illustrate the decision making process and the delicate balance between international cooperation and freedom of action, between the rules of behavior and governmental autonomy. |
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by Senator Douglas Roche, O.C.
Published by Novalis Press. October 2005.
The Second Nuclear Age has begun, one in which nuclear weapons are no longer just for deterrence but for war-fighting strategies. Unimaginable catastrophes for humanity lie ahead unless the present trend to the proliferation of nuclear weapons is stopped. Former Senator Douglas Roche’s latest book describes the actions taken by a number of governments and civil society working for a nuclear weapons-free world. Getting “Beyond Hiroshima” is a realistic hope. Roche, who has worked on the nuclear weapons issue as a parliamentarian, diplomat and educator for 30 years, shows how that hope can come alive.
“[Douglas Roche] builds up a political, moral and religious case, drawing on his thirty years’ experience working on nuclear issues as a parliamentarian, diplomat and educator.”
— Dr. Jaynatha Dhanapala
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by Douglas Roche
2003
Senator Douglas Roche, a former journalist, diplomat, and educator, has been actively involved in issues related to disarmament and development for 30 years. Roche argues persuasively for the need to supplant our current culture of war with a culture of peace. Roche's impressive credentials and years of experience lend his ideas a pragmatism that is hard to dismiss.
Available from: Novalis, 49 Front Street East, #200, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1B3, Tel. 416-363-3303, $24.95 (Canadian) |
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Edited by David Krieger and Carah Ong
2001
Maginot Line brings together the views of eighteen contributors of different nationalities, induding Americans, on the proposed US Ballistic Missile Defense plans. These perspectives should be included in any intelligent discussion of whether or not the US should proceed as it is currently planning....
Available from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation |
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by Douglas Roche
1999
A world of "bread not bombs" is the future that Senator Douglas Roche envisions. Housing, health, and education services are desperately needed for the world's poorest people but instead governments spend billions on war and on the weapons of war.
Available from Amazon.com |
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by Robert Green
1998
The Middle Powers Initiative is a network of international citizen organizations working to encourage the nuclear weapon states and their influential allies to move rapidly to eliminate nuclear weapons via practical steps including a Nuclear Weapons Convention. The New Agenda Coalition is a group of middle-ranking nations whose governments have also called for the early elimination of nuclear weapons via similar steps. The work of MPI and NAC at the United Nations and elsewhere is described, and their impact on NATO nuclear weapons policy discussed.
Available from the Disarmament and Security Centre |
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by Rob Green
Foreword by Rt Hon Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
1998
It is clear that the nuclear weapon states, led by the US, UK and France, cite nuclear deterrence doctrine as the final, indispensable justification for maintaining their nuclear arsenals. Rob Green, Commander, Royal Navy (Ret.) herein debunks nuclear deterrence and offers alternatives, showing there is a serious prospect of eliminating nuclear weapons.
Available from the Disarmament and Security Centre |
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by Douglas Roche
1997
The Campaign to ban nuclear weapons has begun. Fifty-two years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a new effort is being made to persuade the countries of the world to disarm. Douglas Roche, Canada's former Ambassador for Disarmament, describes the key developments of this campaign, beginning with a momentous 1996 World Court decision calling for a ban on nuclear weapons.
Available from James Lorimer & Co. |
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