Interview: Rose Gottemoeller on the precarious future of arms control

Rose Gottemoeller is former Deputy Secretary General of NATO and chief US negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) She says the U.S. and Russia each have around 4,000 warheads, of which roughly 1,500 are deployed on long-range intercontinental delivery systems of various kinds, like missiles and bombers.

The two countries did work to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons over time, but that has been thrown into doubt.

In terms of non-compliance or violation of treaties, it’s really the Russians who have been causing those concerns.

I would leave the limits of New START in place and then think about what we can do further.

I think we have room, first of all, to negotiate with the Russians , and we have some room to negotiate.

There’s no disagreement, as far as I can tell, among the P5 [permanent members of the UN Security Council ], that there must be a “human in the loop” who would be responsible or have sole authority for this momentous decision.

What concerns me most is the differential that's developing in AI capability.

I understand that Russia is behind or maybe not even participating in this race because of the other concerns on the mind of Vladimir Putin .