This website, an exceptional resource for issues associated with nuclear weapons, is hosted by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), an organization founded in 2001 by Senator Sam Nunn and Ted Turner. NTI's goal is to reduce global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons as well as missiles. The comprehensive site includes the following features: details on NTI projects, current news on NBC issues, country profiles of NBC weapons and missile holdings, short summaries of issues related to NBC weapons with links to appropriate sites, the open source database on NBCs from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, an introduction to NBC weapons, interactive tutorials, and links to key speeches and reports from government and nongovernmental (NGO) sources. |