Jon Kyl: “Mr. Chairman, Representative Jacobs, the fact is that our current system has deteriorated and aged to the point that we…”

the possibility of an attack coming from one of these hypersonic weapons would be a preemptive, or out of the blue kind of attack, it could be decapitating.

SLCM-N would achieve the objective that we set out.

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.

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