Jon Kyl: “I wanted to thank you, Mr. Ford, and thank the folks that you work with that produced this report.”

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

One of the things that we noticed in this endeavor is there is a great attitude among the military, among the Defense Department generally in being able to succeed at a mission.

The answer to your question is yes.

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.