Negotiating the New START Treaty

The New START Treaty is the last remaining nuclear arms agreement between the United States and Russia; the final pillar on which all strategic arms control between the former Cold War rivals rests. A decade on from the treaty's ratification, and only months after its extension, Rose Gottemoeller (the US chief negotiator) offers a riveting and personal behind-the-scenes account of how this treaty came to be. Negotiating the New START Treaty is a chronological account of the negotiation process, starting in early 2009 with then presidents Medvedev and Obama agreeing to pursue a continuation of the START Treaty, and ending with the ratification of New START in the US Senate in December 2010. Gottemoeller is a pioneer in the field of arms control: she was the first female negotiator to lead an arms control negotiation and the first female to hold the title of NATO's deputy secretary-general. The book is...