We
can safeguard dangerous weapons and materials.
We need to cooperate with other nations, to find and contain nuclear
materials.
Support
the Lugar amendment on Cooperative Threat Reduction program to defense
authorization. |
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The
full Senate will soon consider the Lugar amendment. (Possibly as early
as Thursday of this week.)
The
Cooperative Threat Reduction program, aka Nunn-Lugar, was established
in 1991 and has made important achievements since. Now is the time to
strengthen and expedite this program.
TAKE
ACTION
Please ask your Senator to support this amendment: click
here.
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support Senator Lugar's amendment to the FY06 Defense Authorization
bill to eliminate obstacles to implementing the Nunn-Lugar program.
These Congressionally-imposed conditions have consistently slowed
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BACKGROUND
The
Nunn-Lugar program has facilitated the removal of all nuclear weapons
in Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, serves as a primary tool to safeguard
and destroy Russia's chemical weapons stockpile, and was used to destroy
or deactivate thousands of nuclear warheads, missiles and launchers, and
helps keep dangerous materials out of terrorist hands. Unfortunately, the program has been encumbered
year after year by pockets of resistance within Congress and the administration. It
clearly serves U.S. and international security interests.
Senator
Lugar's amendment to eliminate Nunn-Lugar conditions and certifications
would strengthen the program and provide our government with greater flexibility
to address the dangers posed by poorly safeguarded weapons and research
facilities in Russia and the former Soviet Union, as well as proliferation
threats outside those regions.
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This
amendment is similar to S. 313.
In
April, we asked you to take action on S. 313. Now's the time to
thank Senators who have signed on to cosponsor that bill, and ask
them to support this amendment as well. If
your Senators haven't cosponsored, ask them to cosponsor
the bill and to support this amendment.
S.313 to strengthen U.S. nonproliferation efforts
Introduced by Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), cosponsored by 20 Republicans
and 13 Democrats and supported by the Administration
Click
here to send a message to your Senator.
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For
more information, consult these documents.
(Both
require Adobe Acrobat Reader; to download, click the logo to the
right.)
MAJOR
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE FOUR FACES OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM
BY CHARLES D. FERGUSON AND WILLIAM C. POTTER WITH AMY SANDS, LEONARD
S. SPECTOR, AND FRED L. WEHLING |
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