Richard Lugar
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Cooperative Threat Reduction
- In Cooperative Threat Reduction
Nunn (Democrat, Georgia) and Richard Lugar (Republican, Indiana) to assist Russia and other former Soviet states in dismantling and disposing of their nuclear weapons during the 1990s.
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Richard Lugar, the 1991 Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. The former resulted in the most-significant defense reorganization since the National Security Act of 1947, and the latter provided incentives for Russia and the former Soviet republics to destroy excess nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. For…
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Tea Party movement
- In Tea Party movement: The 2012 election and the government shutdown of 2013
…Mourdock to defeat six-term incumbent Richard Lugar in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in Indiana, but Mourdock did irreversible damage to his own campaign when he stated that pregnancy as a result of rape was “something that God intended to happen.” First-term Tea Party representatives such as Florida’s…
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