Ellen Tauscher: “That's an excellent question, Senator Kerry.”

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…

We wanted to build limited regional missile defenses.

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

We have not moved away from conventional warfare.