The nation's favorite
faux-pundit, Stephen Colbert, will host former Senator Sam Nunn tonight on his show
The Colbert Report, on the Comedy Central network. Along with CNN founder Ted Turner, Nunn co-chairs and is CEO of the
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)--"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." One of the Senator's most important acts in Congress was the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program which gives aid to Russia and former Soviet Republics for the securement and destruction of nuclear, chemical, and biological materials.
Recently, Nunn--along with former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and former Secretary of Defense William Perry--appeared in the NTI documentary
Nuclear Tipping Point. In the film, the four men discuss why they co-authored
two op-eds that appeared in the
Wall Street Journal, which outlined a need for--and a plan on how to achieve--a world without nuclear weapons.
The Colbert Report airs at 11:30pm EST, and is re-aired the next day.
