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Largely ignored in recent years and stripped of critical funding as recently as July, the Nunn-Lugar Act, or "Cooperative Threat Reduction Program" has garnered public attention since the September 11th attacks. Once regarded as peripheral, the Nunn-Lugar now looks not only prescient but absolutely essential...
...sponsored by Sam Nunn, former Democratic Senator from Georgia, and Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, the Act was first approved in 1991 in response to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Designed to limit the threat of suddenly itinerant weaponry, Nunn-Lugar established a fund to pay for the identification, destruction and disposal of nuclear and chemical weapons. The initiative also actively welcomed former Soviet scientists into the American community, hoping to lure prospective bomb-makers and chemical-mixers away from rogue nations...
...Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry GOP chair: Richard Lugar, Indiana Democratic chair: Tom Harkin, Iowa Effect of change: Goodbye, Hoosiers, hello Hawkeyes; both men from farm states with considerable interest in committee business...
Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass) and Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) are members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Appearances have always been important to Daniels. In Reagan's White House, he quietly urged chief of staff Donald Regan to step down because the Iran-contra scandal was on his watch. (Regan stayed, and Daniels left.) Fresh out of Princeton in 1971, Daniels went to work for Lugar, then Indianapolis' mayor. One of his first tasks was arranging a photo op of Lugar filling in a big pothole on a busy downtown street. Arriving early, Daniels discovered that the hole had already been patched. He quickly redug it before the cameras got there. "He understands how images move...