04/21/2009
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"Let me tell you what concerns me. We have deployed a missile system in Alaska and several in California that could defend us potentially against most of the world and particularly the Pacific, North K..."
"It appears to me we will be in a situation, if we actually go forward with a system in Europe, that the Russians will threaten to get out of the treaty."
"I do believe, however, that Russia's stockpile of short-range nuclear weapons vastly exceeds any reasonable political or military requirements and that Russia should be convinced to carry out dramatic..."
"I do not believe that our allies and friends will have any reason to doubt the credibility of U.S. nuclear security guarantees at the 700/1,550 New START limits."