Ben Nelson: “The approach that places top priority on movement towards nuclear zero and other arms reductions will dominate those…”

Our troops' force protection has to be among the highest priorities, together with protecting the Homeland.

These programs are central to our national security. They deserve full, bipartisan support.

Let me add my thoughts. We ask you to reduce budgets, to watch the growth, and then when you come before us after you've done it, then we question why you've done it and whether you've done it right or not.

Double the number of ICBMs the current force is capable of defeating without adding a single new GBI