The Origins of Nunn-Lugar and Cooperative Threat Reduction

Authors

Paul I. Bernstein
Jason D. Wood

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Description

In a 1999 interview, Ashton Carter, a key figure in helping to create and implement the threat reduction program initiated by Senators Sam Nunn (D–GA) and Richard Lugar (R–IN), recalled four visits between 1994 and 1996 to an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) base in Pervomaysk, Ukraine. Planted in the soil of this base were the most powerful rockets mankind has ever made, armed with hundreds of hydrogen bombs and aimed at the United States. In turn, Pervomaysk was itself the target of similar American missiles and weapons. Under the Nunn-Lugar program, the missiles deployed at Pervomaysk by the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and the silos that housed them were destroyed.

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

4-2010

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

Bernstein, Paul I. and Wood, Jason D., "The Origins of Nunn-Lugar and Cooperative Threat Reduction" (2010). WMD Case Studies. 5.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/wmd-case-studies/5