The Biden Administration, New START and the Future of Arms Control

Monday, January 25, 2021
2:30 PM 3:30 PM

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The Biden Administration, New START and the Future of Arms Control

President-elect Joe Biden will have only seventeen days to fulfill his campaign pledge when to extend the New START Treaty before it expires, and use it as a foundation to pursue new arms control agreements. Recent jockeying between U.S. and Russian negotiators on even a short, one-year extension of New START, however, highlighted just how complex and difficult arms control negotiations have become in an era of renewed major power competition, destabilizing new technologies and increasing levels of international tension and distrust. Recent reports that Russian intelligence agents broke into a wide range of key government computer networks in one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks in the last five years promises to further ratchet up the tension and distrust in U.S. – Russian relations.

To explore these important issues, Ambassador Thomas Pickering, CSPC Board Chairman and a former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and the United Nations, will moderate a panel discussion with Olga Oliker, Program Director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group, and former director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Pavel Podvig, Senior Researcher for the Weapons of Mass Destruction Program at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, and the Director and Principal Investigator for the Russian Nuclear Forces Project.

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