June 7, 2018

Ex-Sens. Nunn And Lugar On Disarming North Korea

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Former U.S. Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia, left, and Richard Lugar of Indiana listen during a ceremony commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program at the Pentagon, May 9, 2016. - Department of Defense photo by Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz

Former U.S. Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia, left, and Richard Lugar of Indiana listen during a ceremony commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program at the Pentagon, May 9, 2016.

Department of Defense photo by Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz

Steve Inskeep talks to former Sens. Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, who in 1991 co-authored a plan for dismantling the nuclear arsenals of the former Soviet states.

Read the transcript of this converstion.

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