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Having a hypersonic strike capability enhances our overall deterrent posture by providing the President additional options to hold targets at risk that do not justify crossing the nuclear threshold.

We want you to know we are 100 percent behind you, that we will do everything we can to provide you with all you need

I want to follow on some of the questions my colleague, Senator Fischer, asked earlier about Russia's INF violations.

Russia has destabilized borders in both these countries, and I am concerned about the impact that has had on the ability to smuggle nuclear material.

I think it is a clear misunderstanding of who we are as well.

Russia has indicated through its words and its exercises that it sees the use of tactical nuclear weapons to supposedly deescalate a conflict as a realistic option.

We cannot fight our way out of it. What we have to do is to try to give them hope and dignity and purpose I guess.

I am very confident in our ship captains and in our crews for them to deal with the situation.

I think your idea of complete transparency, here is what we are doing, here is what we are working on, here is how we plan to do it and to try to cooperate as much as we can with other countries, but to tell them this is the plan and this…

In addition to the political conversations that we will need to continue to move forward to bring this conflict to an end, on the humanitarian end, what more might be done by USAID, by State, or by our multilateral institutions to create…

I would strongly urge you, when we talk about infrastructure in this Congress and we talk about investing in the economy, to ensure that we preserve these programs...

I appreciate the opportunity to testify before you today. I feel like I have come home.

At no other time in history have we as a Nation faced such serious, complex, and growing threats to our national security.

I think it is a very enriching program for the Guard, for our country, for the other countries we are involved with.

I think that the B-61 gives us a flexible response and will allow us to use nuclear weapons in Europe in that scenario.

I hope we can meet their expectations and get them the modernized triad they so badly need.

These are all troubling developments that have come to the fore since the 2010 [Nuclear Posture Review] NPR.

We must prepare for the worst case.