Sam Nunn

Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and Chairman Emeritus of the Board, CSIS
Sam Nunn

Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn is cochairman of NTI. He served as chief executive officer of NTI for 16 years, until June 2017, and continues to bring his deep experience and expertise to NTI’s projects. He served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia for 24 years, from 1972 to 1996. In addition to his work with NTI, Nunn has continued his service in the public policy arena as a distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and as chairman emeritus of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Nunn attended Georgia Tech, Emory University and Emory Law School, where he graduated with honors in 1962. After active duty service in the U.S. Coast Guard, he served six years in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. He first entered politics as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1968. During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also served on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. His legislative achievements include the landmark Department of Defense Reorganization Act, drafted with the late Senator Barry Goldwater, and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which provided assistance for more than 20 years to Russia and the former Soviet republics for securing and destroying their excess nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

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Nuclear Weapons: The Growing Risk

CSIS Trustee Bob Schieffer moderates a discussion between Senator Sam Nunn and Secretary Ernest Moniz on the omnipresent and growing risk of nuclear weapons.

Event — December 8, 2021

Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age

In his new book, Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age, Dr. Frank Jones reveals how, as a congressional leader and “shadow secretary of defense,” Senator Nunn helped win the Cold War.

Event — May 17, 2021

“The Statesman,” Posthumous Memoirs of Ambassador David Abshire

As the noted author and journalist Evan Thomas notes in his poignant foreword, “David Abshire was a fixture in the effort to make America a superpower with a higher purpose. He was the embodiment of high strategy and practical (which is to say political) application by men and women of goodwill.

Event — June 26, 2018

Book Launch: "On War and Politics: The Battlefield Inside Washington's Beltway"

In his long-awaited memoir, Punaro presents stories from his personal and public life—from sobering accounts of his days in combat in Vietnam to colorful anecdotes about political luminaries such as John McCain, the Clintons, the Presidents Bush, Colin Powell, Robert Gates, and Ash Carter; from revelations about backroom politics in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill to insights into how decisions are really made inside the Beltway.

Event — November 2, 2016