Jon Kyl: “This hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary will come to order.”

Mr. Chairman, Representative Jacobs, the fact is that our current system has deteriorated and aged to the point that we wouldn't be confident in the deterrent value of it on out into the future.

Our responsibility is to be straightforward with you all. You're the ones that appointed us, you're the ones that we answer to.

It's enough that it's opportunistic. In other words, we're in a conflict with one, and the other sees that this is an opportunity.

The first thing we've got to do is have a conventional capability which is so dominant that no party would ever consider a nuclear attack against the United States.