Rose and I covered the landscape related to New START and more:

* Her experience as chief negotiator - managing Russian interlocutors, an interagency delegation in Geneva as well as the one back home,

* the role of the President and other very senior officials in arms control negotiations,

* New START and “reset” politics,

* why “drive by” negotiations stink,

* Putin’s offer to keep New START limits for one more year,

* missile defense,

* the recent Congressional Strategic Posture Commission Report and bipartisanship in nuclear policy and arms control,

* and much more.

Recent and Upcoming work by Rose:

* Dec. 10, 2025, Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “Arms Race 2.0.“

* Dec. 2025, Arms Control Association. “Getting the Most Out of New START Before It Expires“

* July 30, 2025, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “Nuclear arms control enters uncharted territory. It needs tools—both old and new.“

* May 2021, “Negotiating the New START Treaty.”

* Coming April 2026, “Security through Cooperation: Space, Nuclear Weapons, and US-Russia Relations after the Cold War.”

Also, this isn’t a new topic for Strategic Simplicity - we’ve devoted some time to New START on the podcast, in various posts and articles covering President Putin’s offer, U.S. nuclear force posture after New START, and U.S. arms control policy. Take a look:

* Pods:

* Posts:

Pranay Vaddi, “Beware Russia Bearing Arms Control Gifts,’ RUSI.

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