Actor and producer Michael Douglas visited with Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) in Washington, D.C. to discuss the need to prevent proliferation of weapons and other materials of mass destruction through the Ploughshares Fund and the Nunn-Lugar Act.

Michael Douglas meets with Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) to discuss the Ploughshares Fund and the Nunn-Lugar Act.

Michael Douglas and Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) pose for pictures before meeting to discuss the Ploughshares Fund and the Nunn-Lugar Act.

Actor and producer Michael Douglas visited with Senator Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) to discuss the Ploughshares Fund, the Nunn-Lugar Act, and the Law of the Sea. The Ploughshares Fund is an organization that awards grants “aimed at preventing the spread and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and other weapons of war, and preventing conflicts that could lead to the use of weapons of mass destruction,” according to their website. Douglas said he became interested in this topic in 1978 after doing the film “The China Syndrome.” He said the Three Mile Island incident near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania occurred shortly after the movie came out. (more…)