View full transcript here In this episode of The Negotiator Files, Rose Gottemoeller discusses her role as the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). She explains key points of tension during the treaty’s negotiation, particularly about missile defense and novel systems, and describes the U.S.-Russia relationship over arms control historically and in the present. Gottemoeller also details New START’s ratification process domestically. The conversation concludes with a discussion of NATO nuclear sharing agreements and advice to the next generation of arms controllers. Rose Gottemoeller was the chief U.S. negotiator of New START and served as Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. Department of State. She then served as the Deputy Secretary General of NATO and is now the William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.