"Health care is a partisan issue. Economic stimulus is a partisan issue. Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has been a partisan issue," writes John Isaacs [2] in the Partnership for a Secure America [3] (PSA) blog. "One of the few issues that rises to genuine non-partisanship is support for nuclear non-proliferation funding and the fight against nuclear terrorists. It was Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar who joined with Georgia Democratic Senator Sam Nunn to initiate the Cooperative Threat Reduction [4] program in the 1990’s and the program has received bipartisan support ever since." Isaacs, executive director of the Ploughshares-funded Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation [5], notes that "bipartisan majorities are almost surely ready to support the most concrete actions that are adopted [at the upcoming Nuclear Security Summit [6]]. There is a recognition by politicians of both parties that nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists are the greatest threat to the United States today."
Links
[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/1702
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/116
[3] http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/04/08/bipartisan-support-for-non-proliferation-programs/
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn%E2%80%93Lugar_Cooperative_Threat_Reduction
[5] http://www.armscontrolcenter.org
[6] http://www.ploughshares.org/news-analysis/publications/nuclear-security-summit-fact-sheet