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I have maintained reservations about the treaty in that regard.

The United States should ensure that its actions do not lead Russia or China to take actions that increase the threat to the United States and its allies and friends.

I do hope that the Senate will look carefully at the launcher limit of 700.

The New START Treaty simply does not limit the number of launches the United States can deploy or otherwise constrain the ability of the United States to deploy effective ballistic missile defense, period, full stop.

A treaty that requires no elimination of nuclear force structure by Russia while forcing the United States to reduce launchers is perhaps not in the United States national interest.

Well, do you share my concern about this?

I think if we ignored our own peril, having some type of a missile defense system... we do so really at our own peril.

For more than a decade the development of U.S. ballistic missile defenses has been guided by the principles of (1) protecting against limited strikes while (2) taking into account the legitimate concerns of Russia and China about strategic…

The statement in the preamble, in my view, is nothing more than a statement of the obvious and indeed, a truth which the United States long urged on the Soviet Union before they came to accept it.

The START Treaty and the policies of the Obama administration are, down to the last detail, fully consistent with that advice.

Can the United States credibly take on increased commitments to provide assured deterrence to our allies and extended deterrence with a shrinking arsenal of launchers?

I think that there are at least some on the Russian side that would like to use the discussion of the treaty to attempt to constrain our options on missile defense.

Well, General, I can tell you, you're the first witness to come before this committee that has interpreted their unilateral statement, written in the clearest of language, that they believe that they have an advantage over us when it comes…

But, would you agree with me that they said, in their unilateral statements, that they believe the treaty is such that we cannot defend ourselves using missile defense systems?

And, as a result of that, would you now agree with me that we have a difference, as far as the Russians are concerned, as to what this treaty actually says when it comes to our ability to defend ourselves?

But, your statement that the treaty does not limit you in that regard isn't true, is it?

We have deep differences with the Russians on what this treaty actually means when it comes to defending ourselves.

Your observation that the United States is the only nuclear power that is not going through modernization, I think, is an important observation.