START me up throwback

Doing some unrelated work today, I was reminded of an interesting article: Alexei Arabatov and Rose Gottemoeller's late summer 2008 article that provides an in-depth look at the various options facing the United States as the expiration of the START treaty looms on the horizon.  Given her recent confirmation at State, it will be interesting to monitor how some of the ideas in the article manifest themselves in the negotiations.  It goes without saying that her official capacity drastically limits what she can say not to mention all of the stakeholders that will have to sign off on each step of the negotiations and the final product but perhaps her nonofficial views may matter.