Thomas M. Countryman: “It is not a giveaway. It rather is a mutual recognition that the U.S. and China have reciprocal obligations to each…”

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

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.

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

I would like to see this administration and this Congress make a long-term commitment to steadily expanded resources for the International Atomic Energy Agency because, yes, it is that central to U.S. security and to global security.