{"534921":{"#nid":"534921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Secretary of Defense Commemorates 25th Anniversary of Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Department of Defense commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) legislation in a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Video?videoid=462822\u0022\u003Especial program\u003C\/a\u003E at the Pentagon on May 9, 2016. With Sam Nunn and Dick Lugar present, Defense Secretary Ash Carter presented the inaugural Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer Awards and dedicated a key Pentagon conference room to the two former senators. The ceremony was followed by a panel discussion among Secretary Carter, and Senators Nunn and Lugar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECarter honored five members of the team that implemented the Nunn-Lugar Program of 1991 which resulted in the reduction or elimination of substantive numbers of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons world-wide. The Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer recipients were Dr. Gloria Duffy, President of Commonwealth Club of California; Ms. Laura S. H. Holgate, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction; Dr. Susan Cook Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction; Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood Randall, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Ms. Jane Wales, CEO of the Global Philanthropy Forum, president and CEO of the World Affairs Council and Vice President, Philanthropy and Society of the Aspen Institute and Executive Director of its Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECarter called the implementation of Nunn-Lugar Program to safeguard and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems worldwide an historic moment of change that the world came through safely.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt certainly didn\u2019t look likely or possible at the time. It shows that visionary statesmanship by people like Sam Nunn and Dick Lugar \u0026nbsp;\u0336\u0026nbsp; and bipartisan, by the way \u0026nbsp;\u0336\u0026nbsp; and superb execution by our honorees can do things that look impossible.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECarter also dedicated a conference room across from the Defense secretary\u2019s office in the pentagon as the Nunn-Lugar Room. \u0026nbsp;The space is used for meetings of defense department senior leaders, discussions among strategic military and experts, and has been used by National Security Council meetings led by President Obama.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cFrom this day on, anyone who enters the Nunn-Lugar room \u0026nbsp;\u0336 \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;presidents and policy makers, military and civilian officials, scholars, business leaders \u0026nbsp;\u0336 \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;will walk past a plaque that reminds them of the forward thinking programs, the bipartisan cooperation, and the enduring legacy of Senators Nunn and Lugar,\u201d said Secretary Carter. \u201cAnd their example will inspire today\u2019s leaders, and tomorrow\u2019s, to take novel and even paradoxical steps to develop new ways of thinking and operating to continue to keep the nation safe and leave our children a better world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECTR continues today, though, Carter noted, its mission has \u201cgone global\u201d and extends beyond disintegrated states to include terrorism, and beyond nuclear, to include chemical and biological weapons.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ceremonies and the panel discussion may be viewed at:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Video?videoid=462822\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Video?videoid=462822\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Sam Nunn attended presentations of inaugural Nunn-Lugar awards and dedication of a Pentagon conference room in their name."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Department of Defense commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) legislation in a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Video?videoid=462822\u0022\u003Especial program\u003C\/a\u003E at the Pentagon on May 9, 2016. With Sam Nunn and Dick Lugar present, Defense Secretary Ash Carter presented the inaugural Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer Awards and dedicated a key Pentagon conference room to the two former senators. The ceremony was followed by a panel discussion among Secretary Carter, and Senators Nunn and Lugar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sam Nunn attended presentations by Secretary Ash Carter of the inaugural Nunn-Lugar Awards and announced the naming of a Pentagon conference room for the former senators."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2016-05-09 18:11:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:39","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"534931":{"id":"534931","type":"image","title":"Secretary of Defense Ash Carter","body":null,"created":"1462910400","gmt_created":"2016-05-10 20:00:00","changed":"1475895319","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:19"},"534941":{"id":"534941","type":"image","title":"Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Sam Nunn, and Dick Lugar","body":null,"created":"1462910400","gmt_created":"2016-05-10 20:00:00","changed":"1475895319","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:19","alt":"Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Sam Nunn, and Dick Lugar","file":{"fid":"215596","name":"ashcarternunnlugar.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashcarternunnlugar.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashcarternunnlugar.png","mime":"image\/png","size":3017812,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ashcarternunnlugar.png?itok=3d-J62cz"}}},"media_ids":["534931","534941"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Video","title":"Nunn-Lugar 25th Ceremony and Panel Discussion"},{"url":"http:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/","title":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172020","name":"Nunn-Lugar Awards"},{"id":"167043","name":"Sam Nunn"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}