February 14, 2012

Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Sam Nunn, William Perry, Sidney Drell

In a highly acclaimed new book, award-winning journalist Philip Taubman tells the intimate story of five men – Sam Nunn, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Stanford physicist Sidney Drell – and their campaign to reduce the threat of a nuclear attack and, ultimately, eliminate nuclear weapons altogether.

November 29, 2011

In a Foreign Policy article titled “The Nuclear Bombs to Nowhere”, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Hoffman discusses a new essay by former senator Sam Nunn in a new NTI report, "Reducing Nuclear Risks in Europe."  Hoffman notes, “What I found most interesting was that Nunn has thrown his weight behind the idea that the tactical nuclear weapons are obsolete.” Hoffman considers alternate viewpoints in Russia, writing that both sides have actionable ideas to break the impasse. Hoffman quotes Nunn in closing: “This is a difficult web to untangle, but we must begin."

November 10, 2011

Palo Alto Weekly featured a story on former U.S. Secretary of Defense and NTI Board Memeber William Perry's efforts to reduce nuclear dangers. In the cover article, Perry urges people to educate themselves on nuclear issues including hosting home screenings of "Nuclear Tipping Point." Says Perry, "If we have neighborhood groups all over Palo Alto and all over California and all over the United States meeting and discussing these issues, then that provides the body of knowledge which will lead our politicians to care about the problem and take actions." Perry also discusses the nonproliferation benefits of an international fuel bank and comments on the dangerous situation between India and Pakistan in two separate sidebar articles.

June 16, 2011

The Economist

Sam Nunn, a former American senator who now leads the Nuclear Threat Initiative, likens nuclear zero to a mountain. Even though the peak is far beyond reach today, it still makes sense to move from the foothills up the mountain to a higher, safer base camp. From there—who knows?—the world may one day be able to strike out for the summit.

June 16, 2011

The Economist

In January 2007 a seminal article appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The authors… Henry Kissinger, Bill Perry, George Shultz and Sam Nunn…They now asserted that far from making the world safer, nuclear weapons had become a source of intolerable risk.

The risk of accidents, misjudgments or unauthorized launches, they argued, was growing more acute in a world of rivalries between relatively new nuclear states that lacked the security safeguards developed over many years by America and the Soviet Union.