Women Dominate U.S. Nuclear Negotiations Team
In the Washington Post, Mary Beth Sheridan points out that many of the senior member of the U.S. nuclear treaty negotiations team are women, and that women are increasingly occupying senior posts in the State Department:
To the Russians' astonishment, an array of American women faced them across the negotiating table. Gottemoeller led the American team during the negotiations, which concluded in March. Her deputy was Marcie Ries, another diplomat. The top two U.S. scientists were female. And helping to close the deal on the New START agreement was Ellen O. Tauscher, a State Department undersecretary and former congresswoman.
The U.S. delegation reflected a little-noticed shift in the tough-guy world of national security. Twenty-five years after White House aide Donald Regan famously opined that women were "not going to understand throw-weights," American females clearly get nuclear policy.
They also run it.
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