- Last Best Chance
"Last Best Chance" is an educational
DVD that dramatizes the modern nuclear threat of international terrorist organizations, produced by theNuclear Threat Initiative . The DVD is freely available through the NTI-supported [http://www.lastbestchance.org website] . The film starsFred Thompson as President Charles Ross.The name of the film is a reference to a [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln quote] by
Abraham Lincoln .Premiere
Running at forty-five minutes in length, "Last Best Chance" premiered in the fall of
2005 at the lavish East Side mansion that is home to theCouncil on Foreign Relations inNew York City . Among the attendees were diplomats, military personnel, international bankers, and lawyers. [ [http://www.newyorker.com:80/archive/2005/10/03/051003ta_talk_hertzberg?printable=true The New Yorker, October 3, 2005] ]Speakers at the event following the film included:
* Pete Peterson, chairman of the
Council on Foreign Relations
*Ted Turner , founder ofCNN
*Warren Buffett , investor and philanthropist
* Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of theSenate Foreign Relations Committee
*Sam Nunn , founder of the Nuclear Threat InitiativeThe film was produced and funded by Nunn’s
Nuclear Threat Initiative , theCarnegie Corporation of New York, and theMacArthur Foundation .References
External links
* [http://www.newyorker.com:80/archive/2005/10/03/051003ta_talk_hertzberg?printable=true The New Yorker, October 3, 2005]
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