Nuclear Threat Initiative
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 48 kg 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]
The organization produced the 2010 documentary film Nuclear Tipping Point.[2]
NTI's Leadership
NTI is a place of common ground where people with different ideological views are working together to close the gap between the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and the global response.
Co-chaired by philanthropist Ted Turner and former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, NTI is governed by an expert and influential Board of Directors with members from the United States, Japan, India, Pakistan, China, Jordan, Sweden, France and the United Kingdom. Board members include:
- Joan Rohlfing, President and Chief Operating Officer
- Charles B. Curtis, President Emeritus
- Dr. Alexei Arbatov, Head, Center for International Security at Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Pete Domenici, Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
- Susan Eisenhower, President of The Eisenhower Group
- Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, Chairman of the Board, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- Eugene Habiger General USAF (Ret.), former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Strategic Command
- HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
- Pierre Lellouche, Member of the French National Assembly
- U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar R-Indiana
- Dr. Jessica T. Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Judge Hisashi Owada, International Court of Justice
- Dr. William Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Dr. Nafis Sadik, Special Advisor to the UN 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
Advisors to the Board of Directors include leading figures in science, business and international security. Advisors to the Board include:
- Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
- Dr. David A. Hamburg, President Emeritus of Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Siegfried S. Hecker, Director Emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Frederick Iseman, Chairman and Managing Partner of Caxton-Iseman Capital Inc.
- George F. Russell Jr., Co-Chairman of the EastWest Institute and founder of the Frank Russell Company
NTI's staff includes experts in international affairs, nonproliferation, security and military issues, public health, medicine and communications, who have operational experience in their areas of specialty.
See also
External links
- NTI website
- Mr. Buffett's Excellent Idea The New York Times 28 September 2006
References
- ^ "HEU Removed from Serbia as Nuclear Terrorism Fears Remain High". The Acronym Institute. October 2002. Retrieved 2007-05-18.
- ^ "Documentary Advances Nuclear Free Movement". NPR. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
