Lugar Receives Medal for Achievements in National Defense
By: Chris Veech
Updated: December 4, 2012
Outgoing Indiana Senator Richard Lugar receives the nation's highest defense honor. Monday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave Lugar the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. It was part of the anniversary symposium of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which dismantled nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons in the former Soviet states.

