Ellen Tauscher: “We need a constant, deliberate effort to contain and reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world.”

I look forward to working with this committee and the Senate on these important matters.

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.

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

The Obama administration issued the Nuclear Posture Review, which we are going to discuss today.