Nunn offered with his Republican colleague, Richard Lugar from Indiana--the so-called Nunn -Lugar Legislation which you may have heard of.
nunneries in the kingdom.
nunnery behind Missoula's oldest Catholic church. By post-match midnight, a choreographed wrestling match usually took place in the living room with Heinz 57 used as fake blood.
Senator Nunn , as the author of Nunn -Lugar, when you look back over the 20 years or so since then, how would you rate what we've been able to do in terms of preventing proliferation?
The nunneries were places of learning, and women could pursue an education, which was not really
- I thank both Senator Nunn and Senator Cohen for being here.
Senator Sam Nunn : Well, it's very hard to quantify something that did not happen.
Senator Sam Nunn : Right when the empire was coming apart.
Senator Sam Nunn : Fourteen countries, George, to your point where former Secretaries of State or Defense or top officials have basically written and endorsed our position on this,
Senator Sam Nunn : I learned in politics a long time ago, when you're gonna say something about numbers, don't ever use the number.
Senator Sam Nunn : We were frustrated for a number of years because Russia was, as you said, furnishing technology and so forth for the Bashir reactor in Iran.
Senator Sam Nunn : We're also trying our best to get countries around the globe and private sector to use low-enriched uranium instead of high-enriched uranium.
Senator Sam Nunn : Let me add one other point here.
Senator Sam Nunn : Well, I would--.
Senator Sam Nunn : Phillip Taubman, I would imagine--.
Senator Sam Nunn : Let me ask a question of Phillip.
Senator Sam Nunn : Let me add one point.
Senator Sam Nunn : Just one final word.
I visited the nunnery quite often.
They have nunnery, monastery.
I have a story about Dorsey Nunn and me back in the '90s around criminal justice reform in San Francisco.
state under richard nixon and sam nunn the former democratic chairman of the senate armed services committee people with impeccable defense
There are still quite some nunneries in Tibet, or this is in the old age before you left Tibet?
So the teachers at the nunneries are nuns, so there's no, like, male lama teachers at the nunneries?
for monks or anything special for nunneries?
As I was leaving the nunnery, one of the younger nuns asked me if I had any prayer request.
Norris Henderson's been doing it from before that Dorsey Nunn was doing it 10 years before that.
And that GTRI program has been the basis with Nunn -Lugar in working with Russia on getting control of nuclear materials.
But if you go to a Japanese temple or a nunnery, they serve the vegan dashi.
When my aunt-- my aunt was in a nunnery, lived in nunnery.
But nowadays, each nunnery has allowed so many nuns.
who want to ask pray for monastery or nunneries, and they like to do nunneries because nuns sit still there,
I will say, most nunneries have just nun, ,, but some lamas who
with George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn in three or four op-eds over the period of the last six or seven years,
And I think Senator Nunn , you've been leading this effort through an organization that he co-chairs called the "Nuclear Threat Initiative."
And those nuns there, some are nunneries.
You can have so many, each nunnery.
We have around Sakya, there is two nunneries I visited.
We have Secretary of State George Schultz, Senator Sam Nunn , and Secretary of Defense William Perry.
And at that session, I think Secretaries Schultz and Perry and Senator Nunn and Henry Kissinger were actually in the Security Council chamber that day, watching the discussion.
Senator Sam Nunn : So, we've got enough nuclear material out there.
In fact, both men and women turned to monasteries and nunneries for education,
And I enjoyed very much, I'd go visit in the nunnery.
Otherwise, yes, there are are nunneries, and these nuns are very good practitioners.
OK. So in general, the Buddhism teachings in the nunnery, are they very similar to the Buddhist Institute or monastery
Yeah. I mean, just compare the nunneries and the monastery for monks.
And there's another story, which is when I was talking to this nun in the nunnery.
But it has been embraced by some of the most hawkish of the Cold War hawks such as Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn , George
We joined up, as Phil said, Senator Lugar and I, and passed the Nunn -Lugar legislation in actually the late Fall of 1991.
One question I have is, you mentioned 4% of Tibetan women become nuns and that there are nunneries in Tibet.