Jon Kyl: “We all wish the nuclear genie had not been let out of the bottle, but it was. I noted with interest, Senator Hatfield…”

“We all wish the nuclear genie had not been let out of the bottle, but it was. I noted with interest, Senator Hatfield, Senator Exon, and others commented about their experience in World War II and glad that President Truman made the decision he did, which probably brought that horrible war to a conclusion much faster than it would have been, and thank God the weapon he chose to use worked. All we are saying is, in the future, 30 years from now we better know that the weapons we rely on in our stockpile will work. To do that, we need to be prepared to conduct the very limited tests, and that is going to require the limited money included in the bill for this purpose. That is why we need to reject the Exon amendment.”