Bipartisan support for nuclear agenda

"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 in the Partnership for a Secure America (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 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, notes that "bipartisan majorities are almost surely ready to support the most concrete actions that are adopted [at the upcoming Nuclear Security Summit]. 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."