What is the Nuclear Threat Intiative?

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is a public charity founded in 2001 by Ted Turner, a media mogul, and Sam Nunn, who was a United States Senator from Georgia for 24 years. The Nuclear Threat Initiative is based in Washington, DC, with Sam Nunn serving as the current CEO. The organization is notable for operating with full transparency. According the organization's web site, NTI's main goals are "to prevent terrorists from getting a nuclear bomb and to strengthen global health and security." The NTI operates on a budget of roughly $50 million USD per year. One of the Nuclear Threat Initiative's most significant accomplishments so far was producing Last Best Chance a 45-minute film that illustrates the danger of nuclear terrorism. In the film, terrorists steal weapons-grade uranium from poorly-guarded research reactors, fashion a nuclear bomb, and successfully smuggle it across the American border. The film ends before the bomb is actually detonated, leaving the effects of the bomb ...  more