Senior U.S. government officials have been touring different states to deliver addresses explaining the national security benefits of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty since October, with Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller and Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation Ambassador Adam Scheinman taking the lead.
Scheinman’s keynote address at the "Deterrence & Assurance Academic Conference and Workshop” at the University of Nebraska-Omaha on March 4 was covered in the Omaha World-Herald.
As part of her speaking tour in New Mexico, Gottemoeller was interviewed on Feb. 4 by the Albuquerque Journal on the CTBT. In that article, New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich went on the record in support of the treaty’s ratification.
Below is a compilation of remarks of key remarks released by the Department of State as the Obama administration works to reintroduce the CTBT:
- “Keynote Speech to the 2016 Deterrence and Assurance Conference,” by Ambassador Adam Scheinman, University of Nebraska at Omaha, March 4, 2016.
- “America and the Nuclear Future,” by Undersecretary Rose Gottemoeller, University of Mississippi, February 25, 2016.
- “Remarks at the Department of Energy’s Stockpile Stewardship Event,” by Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Navy Heritage Center, October 21, 2015.
“The End of Nuclear Testing?” by Undersecretary Rose Gottemoeller, Fairbanks, Alaska, October 19, 2015.