Ellen Tauscher: “If you are a member of the NPT, and are clearly in compliance, then you have this exemption.”

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

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

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.

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.