Nuclear Threat Initiative

About

NTI is 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.

Co-chaired by former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and philanthropist and CNN founder Ted Turner, NTI is governed by an expert and influential Board of Directors with members from the United States, Russia, Japan, India, Pakistan, China, Jordan, Sweden, France and the United Kingdom.

Board members include a former U.S. Secretary of Defense, members of the legislative branches of government from the United States, France, Russia and the United Kingdom; a member of the Jordanian royal family; a Nobel prize winning economist; a world renowned nuclear physicist; the former commander of U.S. nuclear strategic forces and other top experts in international security issues. The foundation's activities are directed by NTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn and NTI President and Chief Operating Officer Joan Rohlfing.

Advisors to the Board of Directors include leading figures in science, business and international security. NTI is staffed by experts in nonproliferation, international affairs, communications, security and military issues, public health and medicine who have operational and international experience in their fields.

NTI is an operational organization — actively engaged in developing and implementing projects that bring new strategies, new partnerships and effective action to reduce the dangers from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Since governments have most of the resources and authority in the large-scale work of threat reduction, it is not only what NTI can do to directly to reduce these threats that matters; it is also what NTI can persuade others to do. NTI's focus is on leverage — combining its influential voice with direct action projects to catalyze greater, more effective action by governments and international organizations.