Tom Cotton actually said...

"Again, driven primarily by the threat that Russia has posed by both the rhetoric and the reality of their nuclear modernization."

"I think that is an important point. Almost all strategic discussions, certainly strategic arms control negotiations revolve around the bilateral threat between the United States and Russia."

"That threat is primarily driving the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review for our country."

"If the threats from Russia and China and Iran and North Korea, potentially other now or future nuclear states were to grow and our leaders determine that we need to produce more than that number of pi..."