Sam Nunn
American lawyer and politician · United States · On the map · Politicians · Born 1938 · age 88
Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr. is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia (1972-1997) as a member of the Democratic Party.
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While in the Senate, Nunn was involved in the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, which aims to dismantle weapons of mass destruction, originally in the former Soviet Union. Nunn was also involved in the Goldwater-Nichols Act, which reformed the Department of Defense.
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