Jon Kyl: “I want to join Senator Grassley in thanking you for holding this hearing on an extremely important topic”

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.

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.