Join the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) for a half-day conference to explore the future of arms control. Arms control and the nonproliferation regime are being challenged on multiple fronts. U.S.-Russia bilateral cooperation on arms control stalled under the cloud of INF violations by Russia and withdrawal by the United States. Prospects for even simple extension of the New START Treaty appear grim. If New START expires in 2021 without extension or replacement, the United States may find itself for the first time in over fifty years without any formal, treaty-based limits on strategic nuclear weapons capabilities. This uncertainty combined with nuclear modernization programs in the U.S., Russia and China raise important questions about future strategic stability, force modernization and arms control.

The conference will be followed by a reception. Registration is required; details can be found on the event page.

Speakers:

Rebecca Hersman, director, Project on Nuclear Issues and Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS

Deb Fischer, U.S. Senator (R-Neb.)

Rebecca Lissner, assistant professor, strategic and operational research department, U.S. Naval War College
 
Ulrich Kuehn, deputy head, arms control and emerging technologies, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg
 
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, postdoctoral research fellow, Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard University
 
John Warden, strategy, forces and resources division, Institute for Defense Analyses
 
Rachel Ellehuus (moderator), deputy director & senior fellow, Europe Program, CSIS

Alex Bell, senior policy director, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
 
Vince Manzo, research scientist, Center for Naval Analyses
 
Frank Rose, senior fellow for security and strategy, foreign policy, Brookings Institution
 
Oriana Mastro, assistant professor of security studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University