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The Opportunity: Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms with Ambassador Steven Pifer
What is the future of the U.S- Russia nuclear arms negotiations? What are the key nuclear arms control challenges facing president Obama? What are some practical policy recommendations to reducing nuclear arms and missile defense? How real are North Korea's nuclear threats?
Come join us for an evening discussion with Ambassador Steven Pifer, former Ambassador to Ukraine, as discusses his new book The Opportunity: Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms and provides us with key recommendations to reducing nuclear arms.
Steven Pifer, a career foreign service officer, arrived in Kyiv on January 8, 1998, as the third United States Ambassador to Ukraine. Prior to his appointment here, Mr. Pifer served from August, 1996 to August, 1997 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council.
Mr. Pifer, of Sebastopol, California, entered the Foreign Service in January, 1978. He was assigned from 1978 to 1980 to the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw as a general services and consular officer. He returned to the State Department in 1980 as a staff assistant in the Bureau of European Affairs and then as a political-military officer in the Office of European Political and Security Affairs. During this time he also participated in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces negotiations in Geneva. From 1984 to 1985 he was special assistant to Ambassador Paul Nitze, Special Advisor on Arms Control Matters From 1986 to 1988 Mr. Pifer served as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He returned to the State Department for two years as Deputy Director for Multilateral and Security Affairs in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs. From 1990 to 1993 he was Deputy Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in London. He then returned to Washington as deputy to the Senior Coordinator for the New Independent States (the former Soviet Union). At the end of 1994 Mr. Pifer was detailed to the National Security Council staff as Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs.
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521 Wall Street
Seattle, WA 98121
United States
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