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Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

A sample of headlines.

Russian media spreading disinformation about US bioweapons as troops mass near Ukraine

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Sen. Richard Lugar in November 2013. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Senator Richard G. Lugar: An appreciation

By William Tobey | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

Richard Lugar with Barack Obama in 2005 at a Russian base where mobile launch missiles were being destroyed by the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. At the time, Lugar was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Obama was a member of the committee.

Farewell to American statesman Richard Lugar

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Siegfried S. Hecker: The story of Plutonium Mountain

By | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons