Robert Joseph: “My skepticism is that we continue to apply cold-war approaches in our relationship with Russia.”

I think Iran will use nuclear weapons. They will use it to intimidate. They will use it to blackmail us.

The New START treaty does not prevent the United States or Russia from developing new strategic nuclear weapon capabilities.

The United States missile defense systems are not intended to affect the strategic balance with Russia.

Once you allow Iran to maintain and in fact under this agreement expand a large-scale infrastructure for enrichment, the agreement in and of itself explicitly recognizes at that point Iran as a nuclear weapons threshold state.