I asked the question of the staff people, who have read and reread and reread the underlying bill and the Bingaman amendment, if there was any limitation on from where the credits came. And they told me they could find none. There is no State limitation, no border between the United States and Canada, or other border, so that indeed you could end up with a worldwide credit system, not just one as among the different States of the United States.
Discussing potential implications of a bill related to credit systems.
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One of our recommendations concerns ways that we could potentially mitigate the risk of a deterrence gap.
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.
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.
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