Thomas M. Countryman: “The problem with having a gold standard is it needs to have two things. It needs to be replicable, and it actually needs…”

It is not a giveaway. It rather is a mutual recognition that the U.S. and China have reciprocal obligations to each other that each must meet.

I think our policies have not been thoughtful relative to how we deal with these nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.

China says--and I think it is borne out by their actions--that they do not support North Korea as a nuclear weapons state and that they wish to see the entire Korean Peninsula denuclearized.

I do not believe that it is in the United States' interest to pursue an autarchic policy of avoiding scientific and technical cooperation in the civilian nuclear field.