The Nuclear Threat Initiative
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The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is a public charity founded in 2001 by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn in the United States, which exists to strengthen global security by reducing the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and also to reduce the risk that they will actually be used.
NTI is an operational organization, actively engaged in developing, shaping and implementing projects. In addition to building global awareness, NTI engages in model programs to inspire private and governmental efforts toward threat reduction.
In 2002 the NTI provided the $5 million of private money needed to add to the $3 million from the US government to safely move 48kgs of highly enriched uranium (enough for two nuclear weapons) from the defunct Vinča nuclear reactor near Belgrade to a facility in the Russian Federation to be blended down for use as a conventional nuclear fuel.[1]
[edit] Directors
NTI's international board of directors includes:
- Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, Co-Chairman and CEO
- Philanthropist Ted Turner, Co-Chairman
- Charles B. Curtis, President & Chief Operating Officer
- U.S. Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico);
- Susan Eisenhower, President of The Eisenhower Institute
- Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Chairman of the Board, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- General Eugene Habiger USAF (Ret.), former Commander in Chief of the United States Strategic Command
- HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
- The Honorable Pierre Lellouche, French National Assembly
- U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-Indiana)
- Dr. Jessica Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Judge Hisashi Owada, International Court of Justice
- Dr. William Perry, former United States Secretary of Defense
- Dr. Nafis Sadik, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General
- Professor Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
- Rt. Hon. Shirley Williams, House of Lords, UK
- Professor Fujia Yang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Frederick Iseman of Caxton-Iseman Capital, LLC and Siegfried S. Hecker, former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, serve as advisors to the Board of Directors.
[edit] External links
- NTI website
- "Mr. Buffett's Excellent Idea", The New York Times (28 September 2006), http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/opinion/28thu2.html
