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  • And, finally, the provision by the United States of cooperative threat reduction assistance, also known as Nunn-Lugar assistance, to Ukraine.

    Press Briefing By Mccurry Pifer And Bell ITY National Archives 1996

  • Known as the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, the legislation created joint U.S.

    State of War James Risen 2006

  • It is constructive, to a certain extent, in trying to deal with the kind of Nunn-Lugar issues that we've talked about.

    CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2005 2005

  • The Nunn-Lugar Bill (and its follow-ups, Kerry-Lugar and Obama-Lugar) were responsible, effective legislation that addressed a non-obvious problem in an intelligent manner. ed says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Obama at the House GOP Retreat 2010

  • Nunn-Lugar saved us from the nightmare scenarios involving “loose nukes” and that staple of low-grade thrillers and international con men, the mythical “suitcase nuke” much talked about, never reliably reported to have been glimpsed.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • The Nunn-Lugar law provided the new Russian Federation with billions to collect and destroy tens of thousands of warheads often reprocessing the fissile material in them to power nuclear reactors in the U.S.; 13 percent of our electrical supply, Nunn claimed, came from reprocessed Soviet-era nukes.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • The Nunn-Lugar law provided the new Russian Federation with billions to collect and destroy tens of thousands of warheads often reprocessing the fissile material in them to power nuclear reactors in the U.S.; 13 percent of our electrical supply, Nunn claimed, came from reprocessed Soviet-era nukes.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Nunn-Lugar saved us from the nightmare scenarios involving “loose nukes” and that staple of low-grade thrillers and international con men, the mythical “suitcase nuke” much talked about, never reliably reported to have been glimpsed.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • In 1992 Congress passed the Nunn-Lugar act, sponsored by Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, which created the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program for the stated purpose of securing and dismantling weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union states.

    Russ Wellen: Whose Nukes Are You Calling Loose? 2010

  • At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. tracked and locked down nuclear material in the former Soviet Union with admirable success through the Nunn-Lugar program.

    Iran, Israel and the Bomb 2010

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