The Negotiator Files: A Conversation with Elaine Bunn

This interview is a part of CSIS PONI’s Arms Control Knowledge Transfer Initiative (ACKTI), a program designed to preserve knowledge through senior expert interviews and primary source archival research, to educate the next generation of arms control experts on all aspects of arms control, including negotiation, implementation, inspection, and more.

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In this episode of The Negotiator Files, Elaine Bunn, discusses her roles and responsibilities during the lifespans of Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) and New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and offers advice for the next generation of arms control experts. With a distinguished career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, she served as an Analyst in the Theater Nuclear Forces Policy Office during the INF negotiations, and later as the Principal Director of Nuclear Forces and Missile Defense Policy. In 2013, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy, following the signing of the New START, her role was focused on the verification elements of the treaty.

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