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Innovation in Arms Control Winners To Be Announced During Google+ Hangout

Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller participates in an interview for a upcoming documentary at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., September 11, 2012. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

About the Author: Richard Buangan serves as Director of Digital Engagement at the U.S. Department of State.

Our smaller, faster-paced world is changing the security landscape, and these changes will bring with them new challenges and evolutions in current threats. To respond to these changes, we must adapt instruments of statecraft to bring to bear the networks, technologies and human potential of our increasingly inter-dependent and interconnected world.

Last summer, the U.S. Department of State challenged the American public, “garage tinkerers and technologists…gadget entrepreneurs and students,” to come up with innovative ideas to support U.S. arms control and nonproliferation efforts.

Arms control diplomacy, usually considered the arcane specialty of nerdy and secretive scientists, began at the height of the Cold War, but… more »

(Source: blogs.state.gov)

Mobilizing American Ingenuity To Strengthen National Security: A Challenge to the Public

Innovation in Arms Control Challenge Symbol [State Department image/ Public Domain]

About the Author: Rose E. Gottemoeller serves as Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

Our smaller, faster-paced world is changing the security landscape, and these changes will bring with them new challenges and evolutions in current threats. To respond to these changes, we must adapt instruments of statecraft to bring to bear the networks, technologies and human potential of our increasingly inter-dependent and interconnected world. In this spirit, on August 28, 2012, the Department of State launched the Innovation in Arms Control Challenge asking “How Can the Crowd Support Arms Control Transparency Efforts?”

Through this Challenge, we will collect new ideas about how innovation and technological advancement can affect the implementation of arms control, verification, and nonproliferation treaties and agreements. Can innovation bring about creative ways to prevent “loose nukes” from falling into the hands of terrorists? Can smart phone and tablet… more »

(Source: blogs.state.gov)

Moving Arms Control Forward

Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller delivers remarks on the Administrations arms control priorities at the Arms Control Associations annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2012. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

About the Author: Jamie Mannina serves as Special Assistant for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (AVC/FO).

Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, said that the Obama Administration has made significant progress with the agenda that President Obama laid out in Prague just three years ago at the Arms Control Association’s annual meeting on June 4, 2012.

In 2012, the Administration has begun laying the ground work to make further nuclear weapons reductions beyond New START, prohibit the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons, launch new negotiations on conventional armaments in Europe, and other initiatives.

The Acting Under Secretary highlighted progress on implementation of the New START Treaty. In fact, the Russians arrived in the United States last weekend for another inspection of the Treaty at Malstrom Air Force Base, and there is an intensive pace of activity under New START. Each side may do up… more »

(Source: blogs.state.gov)

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Innovation in Arms Control Winners To Be Announced During Google+ Hangout

Mobilizing American Ingenuity To Strengthen National Security: A Challenge to the Public

Moving Arms Control Forward