The Negotiator Files: A Conversation with Susan Koch

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, Susan Koch, discusses her role in the formulation and execution of the Presidential Nuclear Initiatives (PNIs) while offering advice for the next generation of arms control experts. From 1982 until 2007, Dr. Koch held a series of senior positions on the White House National Security Council Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of State, and U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency focused on nonproliferation and arms reduction policy.  As Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on President George H. W. Bush’s National Security Council, she worked on PNIs under President Bush.

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