Ted Turner Starts Anti-Weapon Group

Media billionaire Ted Turner and former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) will establish a $250-million nonprofit organization to work to reduce the global threat from nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction, a spokeswoman for Turner said. Turner, the CNN founder and Time Warner vice chairman who previously pledged to donate $1 billion to the United Nations, has promised to provide $50 million a year for five years to bankroll the new organization. Nunn, who was chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee before retiring in 1996, will co-chair the group. The organization is expected to fund research, hold conferences, publish literature, support grass-roots lobbying and provide grants to like-minded groups.