Thomas M. Countryman: “This Agreement is an example of the strength of our bilateral relationship.”

We have become, I would say, dangerously uncompetitive on the nuclear sphere when we cannot compete with countries like the French and the Russians.

We cannot allow these weapons usable materials, to be separated from spent nuclear fuel.

The problem with having a gold standard is it needs to have two things. It needs to be replicable, and it actually needs to be the best.

The U.S. relationship with China is one of the most important and complex relationships we have in the world.