Ellen Tauscher: “We have not moved away from conventional warfare.”

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.

There are no restrictions, and I was very clear.

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…

You have my promise, Senator, that we will do a thorough review of the obligations that we have.