U.S.-Russia Relations and the Future of Arms Control
Ambassador Steven K. Pifer

Friday, December 4, 2015

As part of the ongoing Nuclear Crossroads Initiative, the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is sponsoring a talk entitled “U.S.-Russia Relations and the Future of Arms Control” Following the lecture there will be a question and answer session. This is open to the Laboratory.

U.S.-Russian relations have fallen to their most difficult point since the end of the Cold War. That complicates many issues, including arms control, though further nuclear reductions beyond those mandated by the New START Treaty were already stuck before the differences over Ukraine and Syria arose. If bilateral relations between Washington and Moscow continue on their current course, what are the prospects for arms control? Alternatively, if the relationship can be put on a better trajectory, what might be possible?

Ambassador Pifer is a retired foreign service officer, his more than 25 years with the State Department focused on U.S. relations with the former Soviet Union and Europe, as well as arms control and security issues. He served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs with responsibilities for Russia and Ukraine from 2001 to 2004, U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 1998 to 2000, and special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia on the National Security Council from 1996 to 1997. In addition to Ukraine, he served at the U.S. embassies in Warsaw, Moscow, and London, as well as with the U.S. delegation to the negotiation on intermediate-range nuclear forces in Geneva.

U.S.-Russia Relations and the Future of Arms Control

The Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) sponsored this seminar entitled "U.S.-Russia Relations and the Future of Arms Control " on Dec. 4, 2015, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The seminar was presented by Ambassador Steven K. Pifer.

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