Why would the Russians enter into the New START treaty with a verification regime, since none exists today, if their intention is to cheat?

You would be back into the nuclear arms race of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Isn't that the definition of nuclear instability?

That's why President Reagan said 'trust but verify.' We will be verifying.

That would require new bombers with nuclear capabilities, correct?

We here are looking very carefully at our nuclear enterprise, the laboratories and everything else.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Your judgment from your perspective is that relationship of the treaty would enhance stability and transparency into their operations?

My sense--and I'll ask you for your sense, General--is that if this treaty is not ratified, the prospects of serious follow-on discussions about nuclear reductions are probably close to zero.

If we fail to ratify the New START treaty, what will it do to the whole issue of predictability, stability, transparency?

It's important to have certainty in this program and it's important that the workforce understand that the Nation really cares about this program.

So this is not some current trendy, chic thing that the President's talking about.

I hope Congress takes the actions that the administration has suggested.

The other aspect here, too, is that some of our concerns are actually protecting our installations and our systems from unwanted intrusion.

If the Russians were, today, able to deploy an effective defense of Russia, our warhead requirements to maintain a deterrent would rise astronomically.

Let me pose a question again to both of you that arises consistently, and that is if the failure to ratify this New START would create a situation in which there are no essential limits that are enforceable.

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