On November 8, the Arms Control Association and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung hosted a conference where a range of national and international experts offered their insights on the future of arms control.
Speakers included New START Chief Negotiator Rose Gottemoeller; Joan Rohlfing, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and Amb. Richard Burt, START I Chief Negotiator. International speakers included Marek Szczygiel, Polish Department of Foreign Affairs; Jiri Sedivy, former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy and Planning; and Eugene Miasnikov, Moscow Center for Arms Control, Energy, and Environmental Studies; among other U.S. and international experts.
The full transcripts are now available here.
Russia Today featured a portion of Ambassador Burt's remarks on the consequences of a failure to ratify New START. Watch it here.
Text by the Arms Control Association