Thomas M. Countryman: “I do not believe that it is in the United States' interest to pursue an autarchic policy of avoiding scientific and…”

This agreement is not a commercial contract. It does not provide for the sale of nuclear equipment or technology to China.

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.

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