Jon Kyl: “My question is, Is the Senator saying that Senator McCain was aware the Senator was going to make this request tonight…”

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.

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.

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.