On the Verge – Reimagining Arms Control (001)

In the inaugural episode of CSR’s On the Verge podcast, Natasha
Bajema interviews Andy Weber and John Gower about the future of
arms control as part of their work for the Janne E. Nolan
Center on Strategic Weapons. The Honorable Andy Weber is a
Senior Fellow at CSR. He spent five-and-a-half years as the U.S.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological
Defense Programs. He was a driving force behind Nunn-Lugar
Cooperative Threat Reduction efforts to remove weapons-grade
uranium from Kazakhstan and Georgia and nuclear-capable MiG-29
aircraft from Moldova, to reduce biological weapons threats, and to
destroy Libyan and Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles. In addition,
he coordinated U.S. leadership of the international Ebola response
for the Department of State. Rear Admiral (ret.) John Gower is a
Senior Advisor at CSR. He served, until his retirement in December
2014, as Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Nuclear & Chemical,
Biological) in the UK Ministry of Defense. Previously, he spent
nearly half his 36-yr military career at sea in ships and
submarines culminating in the sequential command of two globally
deployed submarines. The Nolan Center also launched a program in
2018 on reimagining arms control. As the international landscape
continues to evolve, successful arms control in the 21st Century
will require new approaches grounded in the mutual security
interests of countries involved. Working in collaboration with
governments and other think tanks from around the world, the Nolan
Center is developing new arms control concepts that countries may
pursue together. This work gives special attention to classes of
nuclear weapons that carry the highest risks of ambiguity,
escalation, and altering strategic calculations; and developing
arms control ideas that could include to Indo-Pacific participants.
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