Bill Nelson

How can you start the design of the new submarine if you don't know the outcome of the NPR?

Mr. D'Agostino, the computational capabilities of all the labs have proved to be the real game changer for maintaining nuclear weapons in the absence of nuclear testing.

What happens to the LANSCE facility without the upgrade?

How are the DTRA inspections coordinated with the service inspections, what do the DTRA inspections cover that the service inspections do not, and what is the benefit from each type?

Do you want to take a stab at it?

The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, an accelerator facility that produces protons for a variety of scientific and weapons research, was supposed to have an upgrade beginning in fiscal year 2010, but the upgrade was not funded.

We had some very serious problems at Air Force bases, on Air Force housing, with the result that, inside the fence, at the Air Force base, you could have private housing.

Part of our labs need to help out the intelligence community to support the analysis of foreign nuclear capabilities.

General Alston, you've had to work overtime to straighten out the loose nukes and all of that. Have you got it under control?

I would be surprised, Senator Vitter, if it were said in that isolated context, because I've had lengthy discussions with General Cartwright, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, on this very issue, and I think he has every confidence to…

Originally, under START II, there was a general understanding that once we got to START III, they would take up the tactical nuclear weapons.

We're not only reducing the number of nuclear warheads, but we're going to reduce the actual types of nuclear warheads.

General Carpenter, what is the requirement that the MOP is satisfying?

So, what happens to the facility without the upgrade?

In disassembling the nuclear weapons, do you want to do some of that in Nevada or do you want to do all that at Pantex?

Do you have enough pit storage at Pantex?

We have a pretty sizable dismantlement queue.

I think it's been a very transparent process.

Do we have to worry about any enhanced security, or do you feel like the security is adequate?

It's an easy locator for the civil side of what I would say the research and development that the Nuclear Energy Program does in the Department of Energy (DOE); some of that work is done at the NNSA site, some of it is done at the…

The need to maintain rigor in the management of all things nuclear while reducing the role of nuclear weapons in national security strategy.

Thank you all for your public service. We are grateful.

In that operation center, do you not need upgrades?

Have you thought about putting a UHF transponder on a commercial satellite?

Do you have heartburn that the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is 11 months late?