Jon Kyl: “I would like to see something that has a deterrent effect in it as well.”

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

We have to make decisions now to make sure that we have the capacity to build whatever we're going to need to build.

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.

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.