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Rose Gottemoeller (Assistant Secretary of State USA, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance) Marcin Zaborowski (PISM)

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Meeting at PISM: THE WAY FORWARD AFTER NEW START

On 10 February 2011 Rose Gottemoeller spoke at PISM about New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

Rose Gottemoeller was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, on April 6, 2009. She was the chief negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation. Since 2000, she had been with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She most recently was a senior associate in the Carnegie Russia & Eurasia Program in Washington, D.C., where she worked on U.S.–Russian relations and nuclear security and stability. She also served as the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center from January 2006 – December 2008.

Formerly Deputy Undersecretary of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation and before that, Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation and National Security, also at the Department of Energy, she was responsible for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States. She first joined the Department of Energy in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.

Prior to her work at the Department of Energy, Ms. Gottemoeller served for 3 years as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 1993 to 1994, she served on the National Security Council in the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs, with responsibility for denuclearization in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. Previously, she was a social scientist at RAND and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. She has taught on Soviet military policy and Russian security at Georgetown University.

Ms. Gottemoeller received a B.S. from Georgetown University, and a M.A. from George Washington University. She is fluent in Russian.

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Coast Guard Cutter Bertolf moors at Coast Guard base Kodiak 1

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KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard Cutter Bertolf, a 418-foot national security cutter homeported in Alameda, Calif., moors in snowy conditions at Coast Guard base Kodiak April 14, 2011, so the Bertolf’s crew can attend the North Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center. The cutter is the first of eight planned national security cutters commissioned to replace the aging 378-foot High Endurance Hamilton Class cutters that have been in service since the 1960s. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

110414-G-RS249-6214-Bertolf moors at Kodiak Island