04/16/2013
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"I remain of the view that we have been too anxious to obtain this treaty, which is not the most important thing we need to be doing at this time to deal with the proliferation of nuclear weapons."
"They objected to that."
"The plans were to take that three-stage missile, develop it into a two-stage missile and be able to deploy it in 2015, 2016 in Central Europe that could provide an additional protection against missil..."
"A limited system that could protect us from a rogue state or an accidental launch is not a threat to Russian strategic nuclear weapons."