Speeches
Read speeches by NTI board members, officers and staff.
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Senator Nunn's Remarks at the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C.
Oct. 22, 2002 | Sam NunnSenator Nunn discussed the need to immediately secure nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and materials wherever they are vulnerable around the world.
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Public Health Preparedness and Our Global Security
June 19, 2002 | Sam NunnIn remarks at a CDC sponsored conference on "Public Health and the Law," Senator Nunn outlines several of the key policy issues facing the U.S. and the world with a particular focus on the importance of public health becoming an 'indispensable pillar' in our global security framework.
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Vision for U.S.-Russian Front Against Terrorism and Weapons Proliferation
May 27, 2002 | Richard G. LugarSenator Lugar discusses the future of the U.S.-Russia relationship, proposes expanded cooperation, and describes his efforts to build the Nunn-Lugar Program to include countries willing to work with the U.S., Russia and their allies.
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Reducing the Threats from Weapons of Mass Destruction and Building a Global Coalition Against Catastrophic Terrorism
May 27, 2002 | Sam NunnIn this speech at the NTI Conference in Moscow, Sam Nunn emphasizes the importance of cooperation between the U.S. and Russia in building a global coalition to reduce the threats from weapons of mass destruction.
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Nunn & Lugar Call for a Global Coalition Against Catastrophic Terrorism
Senators Nunn and Lugar released a statement following NTI's May 27 conference in Moscow calling for the creation of a Global Coalition Against Catastrophic Terrorism.
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NTI, Catastrophic Terrorism and Things That Go Bump in the Night
April 24, 2002 | Charles B. CurtisMr. Curtis speaks at a lunchtime seminar hosted by Resources for the Future about the work of NTI, our vision of global security, the programs we fund and the policies we promote to advance that vision.
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The Nunn-Lugar/Cooperative Threat Reduction Expansion Act
March 18, 2002 | Richard G. LugarSenator Lugar announces this bill that would authorize the Secretary of Defense to use up to $50 million of unobligated Nunn-Lugar/CTR funds for nonproliferation projects and emergencies outside the states of the former Soviet Union.
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Building Global Cooperation for Threat Reduction
March 11, 2002 | Sam NunnSenator Nunn discusses the importance of global cooperation in keeping WMD out of terrorist hands in this speech to the Wilmington World Affairs Council in Delaware. He also describes several NTI projects and his hopes for a U.S.-Russian led global coalition against catastrophic terrorism.
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Putting First Things First: The Global Challenge of Reducing the Threats from Weapons of Mass Destruction
March 6, 2002 | Charles B. CurtisMr. Curtis urges a reasoned and accepted balance between security and liberty at Scientific American's Summit on Privacy, Security and Safety: Preserving an Open Society in an Age of Terrorism.
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NATO's Role in the War on Terrorism
Jan. 18, 2002 | Richard G. LugarIn this speech delivered to the U.S.-NATO Missions Conference in Belgium, Senator Lugar discusses NATO involvement in meeting the premier security challenge of our time - the threats from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
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Meeting Today's Security Challenges
Dec. 12, 2001 | Charles B. CurtisThis speech, delivered at the Brookings Institution's Seminar on U.S. National Security Policy Issues, presents the work of NTI, our vision of global security and the programs we fund and the policies we promote to advance that vision.
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Reducing the Nuclear Threat in the 21st Century
Oct. 29, 2001 | Charles B. CurtisMr. Curtis addressed the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria on the importance of safeguarding nuclear weapons material and know-how, and announced the NTI Pledge of $1.2 Million to IAEA for Nuclear Material Protection.
