Jim Garrison is president of the State of the World Forum, a San Francisco-based non-profit institution created in 1995 to establish a global network of leaders dedicated to discerning and implementing those principles, values, and actions necessary to guide humanity toward a more sustainable global civilization. He is the author of The Plutonium Culture, The Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima, The Russian Threat: Myths and Realities, The New Diplomats, and Civilization and the Transformation of Power.