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G-8 Leaders Should Emphasize Nuclear Terrorism Prevention, Former U.S. Senator Says
The leaders of the Group of Eight global economic powers should place a higher emphasis on preventing nuclear terrorism when they meet next month in the United States, former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) said Monday (see GSN, April 27). When asked if nuclear terrorism was the most important issue the G-8 leaders could discuss during the planned summit, Nunn said, “ I don’t think anything else is even close.” During the 2002 G-8 summit, the leaders of the eight countries — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — pledged $20 billion over 10 years to help fund nonproliferation projects, primarily in Russia. Nunn, now head of the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, said that he would like to see next month’s meeting in Georgia include the creation of a schedule to distribute that funding. There is no sign, though, that the G-8 leaders plan to do more than offer renewed pledges, he said (Don Melvin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 5). “It’s too easy for the G-8 to have a photo opportunity, to have a nice set of dinners, to have press conferences, make a bunch of pledges, go home and everybody forgets about it,” Nunn said. “That must not happen,” he added (International Herald Tribune, May 5). [EDITOR’S NOTE: Sam Nunn is chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. NTI is the sole sponsor of Global Security Newswire, which is published independently by National Journal Group.]
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