The Future of the Arms Control Regime

The existing arms control and strategic stability framework, originally established to regulate bilateral nuclear competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, is under increasing strain. Indeed, in recent years, key pillars of that framework like the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty have collapsed. And the future of the remaining pillars of the framework, especially the New START treaty, remains unclear. What are the reasons for the current state of the regime? What can be done to update the regime to ensure it remains relevant in the current and emerging international security environment? In his remarks, Mr. Rose will seek to answer these two key questions.

Frank A. Rose is a senior fellow and the co-director of the Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. He focuses on nuclear strategy and deterrence, arms control, strategic stability, missile defense, outer space, and emerging security challenges. From 2017-18, he served as principal director and chief of government relations at the Aerospace Corporation, a federally-funded research and development center focused on national security space. Mr. Rose also served as assistant secretary of state for arms control, verification, and compliance from 2014-17. In this position, he was responsible for advising the secretary of state on a wide variety of arms control, strategic policy, verification, and compliance issues. From 2009 to 2014, Mr. Rose served as the deputy assistant secretary of state for space and defense policy where he was responsible for key issues related to arms control and defense policy including missile defense, space security, chemical and biological weapons, and conventional arms control.