Editing Sam Nunn (section)

==Post-Congressional life==
[[File:SamNunnMicrophone2007.jpg|right|thumb|Nunn in 2007]]
[[File:160509-D-DT527-301 (26644078720).jpg|thumb|right|Nunn with [[Richard Lugar]] and [[Ash Carter]] in 2016]]

Nunn founded the [[Nuclear Threat Initiative]] in 2001 and w as co-chair and CEO until June 2017, when he became co-chair with [[Ted Turner]] and [[Ernest Moniz|Ernest J. Moniz]].

In addition to his work with the [[Nuclear Threat Initiative]], Nunn continues his service in the [[policy|public policy]] arena as a distinguished professor in the [[Sam Nunn School of International Affairs]] at [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]]. There, he hosted the biennial Sam Nunn Policy Forum, a policy meeting that brings together noted academic, government, and private-sector experts on technology, public policy, and international affairs to address issues of immediate importance to the nation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.inta.gatech.edu/sam-nunn-forum/ |title=The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs |publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology |website=inta.gatech.edu | access-date= February 27, 2017 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080518101634/http://www.inta.gatech.edu/sam-nunn-forum/ | archive-date= May 18, 2008}}</ref>

Nunn was an active advisory board member for the [[Partnership for a Secure America]], a [[not-for-profit organization]] dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. He signed a number of the organization's bipartisan policy statements on important issues ranging from [[climate change]] to enhanced interrogation practices and [[nonproliferation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.psaonline.org/category/publications/ |website=PSAonline.org |title=Bipartisan Policy Statements |access-date=2017-02-27 |archive-date=2016-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924121416/http://www.psaonline.org/category/publications/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Additionally, Nunn is Chairman Emeritus of the board of trustees for the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]] in Washington, D.C. At CSIS, Nunn and former senator and United States Secretary of Defense [[William Cohen]] joined for a series of public roundtable discussions designed to focus Americans on the seminal issues that the United States must face. The Cohen-Nunn Dialogues featured top thought leaders, public policy experts, prominent journalists, and leading scholars.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csis.org/cohen-nunn |title=Cohen-Nunn Dialogues |work=csis.org |access-date=February 27, 2017 |archive-date=June 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620172216/http://www.csis.org/cohen-nunn/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Nunn is a retired partner in the law firm of [[King & Spalding]]. He also was a board member of [[The Coca-Cola Company]]. In 2005, Nunn teamed up with former senator [[Fred Thompson]] to promote a new film, ''[[Last Best Chance]]'', on the dangers of excess nuclear weapons and materials. The film was produced by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and aired on [[HBO]] in October 2005.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2005-09-26 |title=Rain and Fire |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/03/rain-and-fire |access-date=2022-07-26 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref> He gave a full presentation outlining his goals at the [[Commonwealth Club of California]].

Nunn—along with [[William J. Perry|William Perry]], [[Henry Kissinger]], and [[George Shultz]]—called upon governments to embrace the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, and in five ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' [[op-ed]]s proposed an ambitious program of urgent steps to the vision. The four created the Nuclear Security Project to advance this agenda. Nunn reinforced that agenda during a speech at the [[Harvard Kennedy School]] on October 21, 2008, saying, "I'm much more concerned about a terrorist without a return address that cannot be deterred than I am about deliberate war between nuclear powers. You can't deter a group who is willing to commit suicide. We are in a different era. You have to understand the world has changed."<ref>{{cite web |last=Maclin |first=Beth |date=2008-10-20 |url=http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18606/ |title=A Nuclear weapon-free world is possible, Nunn says |publisher=Belfer Center, Harvard University| access-date= October 21, 2008}}</ref>

In 2010, the four were featured in a documentary film entitled ''[[Nuclear Tipping Point]]'', also produced by the [[Nuclear Threat Initiative]]. The film is a visual and historical depiction of the ideas laid forth in the ''Wall Street Journal'' op-eds and reinforces their commitment to a world without nuclear weapons and the steps that can be taken to reach that goal.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

Nunn was a member of the supervisory council of the [[International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe]], a not-for-profit organization uniting leading experts on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, materials and delivery vehicles. He also was on the Board of Advisors for the [[National Bureau of Asian Research]], a non-profit, nonpartisan research institution.<ref>[http://www.nbr.org/About/boa.aspx NBR Board of Advisors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823095630/http://www.nbr.org/about/boa.aspx |date=2018-08-23 }}; accessed February 27, 2017.</ref>

In June 2013, Nunn added his voice to public support for an updated nuclear-arms limitation agreement with Russia. The 1992 Nunn-Lugar agreement had just expired at a time of increasing political tension between the two nations. Nunn applauded the determination of presidents Obama and Putin to renew its core provisions, while urging further work to agree on chemical and biological weapons limits also.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g8-usa-russia-nuclear-idUSBRE95H00720130618 |title=Obama, Putin to sign new deal on reducing nuclear threat |publisher=Reuters |date=Jun 17, 2013|access-date=July 2, 2013}}</ref>

Nunn also was a member the Board of Curators for the [[Georgia Historical Society]]. He also was an advisory board member of [[Theranos]], a fraudulent biotech company.<ref>{{cite web |title=A singular board at Theranos |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |date=June 12, 2014 |url=http://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-board-directors| access-date= 2015-10-12}}</ref>

Several books have been written about the life and career of Sam Nunn. "The Best President the Nation Never Had: A Memoir of Working with Sam Nunn" was written in 2017 by his former Chief of Staff, Roland McElroy, and details Nunn's early years as a candidate for Senate.<ref>{{cite book |last=McElroy |first=Roland |title=The Best President the Nation Never Had: A Memoir of Working with Sam Nunn |url=https://www.mupress.org/The-Best-President-the-Nation-Never-Had-A-Memoir-of-Working-with-Sam-Nunn-P946.aspx |publisher=Mercer University Press |year=2017 |isbn=9780881466287 |location=Macon, Georgia |pages=242 |access-date=29 October 2024}}</ref> "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age", by Frank Leith Jones, takes a more comprehensive look at Nunn's four-term Senate career, focusing on his accomplishments in nuclear and national security policy. <ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Frank Leith |title=Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age |url=https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700633173/ |publisher=University Press of Kansas |year=2021 |isbn=9780700633173 |location=Lawrence, Kansas |pages=448 |access-date=29 October 2024}}</ref>

In 2019, the US Navy announced that an [[Arleigh Burke-class destroyer| Arleigh Burke-class Missile Destroyer]] will be named the [[USS Sam Nunn]].