Rose Gottemoeller, who served as lead U.S. negotiator for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) and later NATO Deputy Secretary General, joined more than 40 members of the IPNDV on June 23rd to discuss her experience with the New START treaty and lessons learned for future disarmament verification work. The group also discussed capacity building in the disarmament verification sector; the important role that technical experts from both nuclear and non-nuclear weapon states play; and the impact of technological innovations and emerging tools in the field.
The seminar was organized as part of the IPNDV’s mission to further information sharing and capacity building between technical and political experts from the Partnership’s member countries.