Jeff Sessions actually said...

"I got the great concern that ours should be drawn down; and that these nations are really worried that we might reach an agreement that would make the situation even more precarious for them."

"In my view, our current alert posture is not destabilizing."

"One of the problems we have is that as we draw down our weapons, it seems to me that China may have an incentive to seek equivalence with the United States."

"The perverse consequence of too much reduction could actually be a proliferation of nuclear weapons in other countries that previously did not feel the need to have them."