Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn is replaced by the Hessian Peace Prize in 2008 for his commitment to nuclear disarmament and against nuclear terrorism.
wikipedia: Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. (born September 8, 1938 in Macon, Georgia) is an American businessman and politician is the Democrats. He represented from 1972 to 1997 the state of Georgia as a senator in the U.S. Senate.
Nunn was born in 1938 in Macon, Bibb County. He attended from 1956 to 1959, the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and graduated in 1961 from Emory University. Nunn was
1968-1972 Member of the House of Representatives from Georgia. On 7 November 1972 he was elected to the U.S. Senate to neuzubesetzen the Senate seat of the late Senator Richard B. Russell. After several successful re-election, he ran no longer 1996th Nunn was therefore of 8 November 1972 to 3rd January 1997 Member of the U.S. Senate.
Nuclear Threat Initiative
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is an American organization, which advocates for international peace through the elimination of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. It was founded in January 2001 by Ted Turner, founder of the American TV channel CNN, and Sam Nunn. >> www.NTI.org
