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Adaptability, including flexibility is, in my opinion, the single most important metric for measuring the adequacy of U.S. forces for the deterrence of foes and the assurance of allies.

we want to deter the Russian Federation from believing it can get anything useful out of a first-nuclear-use threat

I think it is very important.

Deterring discriminate attacks at the lower end of the nuclear continuum depends critically on the United States having nuclear response options.

I believe that the 'overarching constraint' set by the Project Atom study the 2025-2050 nuclear posture should be possible within 'approximately $35 billion per year in constant 2013 dollars.'

Russia has moved in a direction in some ways much harsher, particularly in terms of its potential use of nuclear weapons

Please describe what response you would recommend if Russia carries out, in a regional confrontation with the U.S. in, say, the Baltics, their 'escalate-to-deescalate' doctrine and used a single, low-yield nuclear weapon?

The principal role of U.S. nuclear weapons is to deter nuclear attacks against the United States and its allies.

The Inspector General has stated that the TSA's problems come, I think, largely from a lack of training.

This strategy, as described by Moscow, in fact, is a nuclear first-use strategy...

Why doesn't the existing U.S. nuclear force have sufficient capacity for discrimination?

we may be self-deterred from responding in kind because we would have to go too high up the escalatory ladder

I supported the replacement, modernization, or sustainment of the nuclear Triad, the associated warheads, and the nuclear command and control system.

The way to respond, in my view, is NOT to allocate additional resources to nuclear forces but, rather, to invest in advanced capabilities--such as ISR, EW, cyber, lasers, and space defense--that can enable us to maintain our conventional…