Ellen Tauscher

Thank you for all of your work to keep arms control and nuclear nonproliferation at the forefront of our foreign policy.

We need to be able to maintain unambiguously a quality deterrent.

I would support the Senate looking at it.

It is important that we understand the very chaotic situation in Bangladesh, that there is tremendous responsibility by the Government of Bangladesh.

These companies could have walked out of Bangladesh. That would not have improved the lives of the people of Bangladesh.

Our goal is not to have them leave Bangladesh.

Prepared to provide the Russian Government with written political guarantees regarding the U.S. and NATO Missile Defense Systems in Europe.

The United States strengthened its longstanding Negative Security Assurance by declaring that the United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the Nuclear…

China's military modernization programs, including its nuclear modernization, are a significant concern which we watch closely.

While the United States and Russia frequently discuss the problems of Iran and North Korea pursuing development of nuclear weapons, this was not a topic of discussion in the negotiation of the bilateral New START treaty.

The New START treaty is a bilateral agreement designed to stabilize the strategic balance between the United States and the Russian Federation at lower levels of nuclear forces.

This is an issue that, when your former colleague, President Obama, was in the Senate, was something that he believed to be a primary threat to the American people and the stabilization of the world community.

There are no restrictions, and I was very clear.

The phased adaptive approach is neither targeted toward the Russian Federation nor, frankly, capable to deter its many, many offensive weapons.

We wanted to build limited regional missile defenses.

The idea of working cooperatively on missile defense is an agenda item of President Obama.

This administration's policy, regardless of who says it or when it is said, the President has made very clear that all options are on the table.

We have verification that is specific. It is robust in many different areas.

The bar for using nuclear weapons is extremely high.

Strengthening the NPT... is a very important opportunity.

It is the start, not only as Senator Wicker mentioned, of the warming of the relationship, but it is the start of a bigger opportunity to move not just on strategic offensive weapons, which is all that the START treaty encompasses, but on…

That's true of all treaties. Most treaties have a national-interest exit clause.

We believe, in the United States, certainly with the New START treaty... that we have made a strong commitment to Article 6 of the NPT.

We want to give more incentive to non-nuclear states not to seek or acquire nuclear weapons.