U.S. — Russia Relations in a Time of Confrontation
Ambassador Linton Brooks

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

This seminar is part of the ongoing Nuclear Crossroads Initiative. Following the lecture there will be a question and answer session. This is open to the Laboratory.

In December 2014, the U.S. Department of State’s International Security Advisory Board delivered a report to Under Secretary Gottemoeller on U.S. - Russia Relations. The report was originally intended to evaluate opportunities for potential future engagement but the crisis in Ukraine reoriented the work towards managing a relationship that could become increasingly confrontational. The report offers long-term recommendations in response to Russian actions and identifies the resulting implications for strategic stability.

Ambassador Brooks is an independent consultant on national security issues, a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University, a member of both the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control and the State Department International Security Advisory Board and an advisor to six of the Department of Energy national laboratories. He served from July 2002 to January 2007 as Administrator of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, where he was responsible for the U.S. nuclear weapons program and for the Department of Energy’s international nuclear nonproliferation programs.

Ambassador Brooks has over five decades of experience in national security, much of it associated with nuclear weapons. His government service includes service as Deputy Administrator for Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, Assistant Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Chief U.S. Negotiator for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Director of Defense Programs and Arms Control on the National Security Council staff and a series of Navy and Defense Department assignments as a 30 year career naval officer. In addition to his government service, Ambassador Brooks spent eight years as a Vice President at the Center for Naval Analyses.

Ambassador Brooks holds degrees in Physics from Duke University and in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland and is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Naval War College. He speaks and writes frequently on national security issues.

U.S.-Russia Relations in a Time of Confrontation

The Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) sponsored this seminar entitled "U.S.-Russia Relations in a Time of Confrontation" on July 7, 2015, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The seminar was presented by Ambassador Linton Brooks.

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