A viable triad at a minimum, per se, has to include nuclear capability or it is not part of our nuclear triad, right? And what I am saying here is that the administration is not assuring us that the long-range bomber will be nuclear capable. So maybe we have a dyad now, not a triad.
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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.
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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.
We have to make decisions now to make sure that we have the capacity to build whatever we're going to need to build.
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