Jon Kyl: “am I correct that we are now in a period of morning business? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator is correct.”

the United States allowed our nuclear enterprise to atrophy, both the weapons and the delivery systems

I certainly appreciate this comment by the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee because the Secretaries of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs have all said our strategic deterrent has to be our No. 1 priority. Why is…

One of our recommendations concerns ways that we could potentially mitigate the risk of a deterrence gap.

We conclude that the strategic deterrent is not just a nuclear deterrent, it is a combination of conventional and nuclear.