Ellen Tauscher: “We have to absolutely, unambiguously protect the things that we must protect.”

It will enhance our security by reducing and limiting the U.S. and Russian strategic 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.

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

The bar for using nuclear weapons is extremely high.