"I am in complete agreement with that. I think that we need to have verifiable treaties that go through the Senate, the regular order process."
"The Triad of SSBNs, ICBMs, and nuclear capability heavy bombers all with their associated support elements offer a mutually reinforcing strategic package that provides a credible deterrent to our adve..."
"If we can't fix this problem, we will do what Secretary Panetta described as cuts that would decimate our defense."
"I worry that in the long term, this situation will allow the President to further walk back on his commitments to modernize and maintain the deterrent."
"we will engage Russia to seek further reductions in our nuclear arsenals . . . because our ability to influence others depends on our willingness to lead."
"mutual assured destruction (MAD) no longer occupies a central psychological or political space in the U.S.-Russian relationship."
"the obligation to assure U.S. allies in Europe and Asia of American commitment to their defense and to extend deterrence to them would fall to U.S. strategic nuclear and conventional forces, which are..."
"Excepting for the fact that the Russians hate both of these capabilities, and the Senate has traditionally been hostile to conventional prompt global strike, can you state how much it would cost to de..."
"a high probability chemical weapons were used."
"What do you know about the subject matter that these general officers don't know?"
"Several U.S. allies, notably South Korea and Japan, already are deeply concerned that the U.S. drive to denuclearize is not reciprocated by the neighboring countries that pose nuclear-armed threats to..."
"Further deep U.S. nuclear reductions will deepen the concern already apparent among some key allies that the U.S. nuclear umbrella is losing credibility."