Jon Kyl: “Okay. Obviously, the reason for that is to try to find how we want to define what would be prohibited here, to include…”

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.

That's why we say that has to be decided now.

It makes our planning much more difficult.

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