This request is not unprecedented. The Senate has previously sought and received access to the negotiating history for arms control treaties...
I thank our witnesses for their service and for joining us today.
For the next 10 years a New START treaty could trump the deployment of a Prompt Global Strike capability.
Many of us have concerns about the New START's methods of verification, its constraints on ballistic missile defense (BMD), and the accompan...
If cheating doesn't matter, then what's the point of a treaty, Dr. Foster?
Defensive systems would inhibit and make uncertain the threat of a first strike against the United States of America.
I believe that a substantive assessment of the New START treaty demonstrates that the treaty is in the U.S. national interest.
I don't understand why we go to the trouble of negotiating with a potential adversary with the understanding that the adversary is going to ...
I view missile defense as a way of inhibiting a first-strike motivation by the part of the Russians or anybody else.
Last year, the Perry-Schlesinger Strategic Posture Commission alerted Congress to the dire need for modernizing the nuclear weapons complex.
a failure to ratify would carry substantial costs for the United States.
Missile defense doesn't harm anybody's deterrence, it harms the ability of countries for first strike.
there are compelling reasons for the Senate to give its consent to ratification of the New START treaty.
Mr. D'Agostino, is the fiscal year 2011 and the future years budget plan sufficient to support the fiscal year 2017 delivery of the B-61 and...
What would the consequences of denying such a request have on meeting the critical 2017 deadline?
General Chilton, the development of the dual-capable, nuclear and conventional, variant of the F-35 to replace aging dual-capable F-16s is a...
under the treaty, any missile can carry any number of warheads, as long as the total does not exceed 1,550, but it's unclear as to how we wi...
General Chilton, have you also conducted a net assessment to determine if the United States can carry out its deterrence mission under a lik...
