Ms. Rose Gottemoeller
Former NATO Deputy Secretary General and former Undersecretary of
State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
&
Mr. Tim Morrison
Former Senior Director for Europe and Russia, National Security
Council, Trump White House
Dinner Conversation
Moderator: Welcome to all of you. I know coming out for an evening away from families and friends to discuss nuclear weapons isn’t for everyone. So we have the really hard core national security reporters here tonight! Thanks for coming. This dinner and the one coming in March are made possible by support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. I hope many of you will also join us on March 17th, we’ll talk about that at the end. But I want to specifically thank Carl Robichaud and Patricia Nicholas of Carnegie Corporation of New York for their efforts and for their support that’s making these two conversations possible. I also want to welcome just a few other people who aren’t journalists who are in the room. First of all, two former colleagues of Rose’s, Michael Elliott, retired Senior DoD executive who was integral to the development of policy related top nuclear weapons and to the international negotiations which Rose led at one point, that led to the current treaty, New START. And Richard Trout, who is a retired naval intelligence officer, served as intelligence advisor for officials in both the Bush and Obama administrations, and those who were negotiating the nuclear arms control issues with the Russians. They could be the speakers tonight, but instead they’re just here. I hope you’ll pipe up when appropriate. Read more
