The Atlantic fleet should continue to be dispersed in two home ports.

Can you describe for the committee what kind of investments you think that are necessary at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg in order to sustain and modernize these launch facilities so you could have operationally responsive space?

Do you have in your mind that you're going, as CNO, to implement a plan for carrying out this principle of strategic dispersal?

It is my belief that it would be a serious strategic mistake to have all of those key assets of our Navy tied up in one port.

Yes, if confirmed, I would consider commissioning an independent review and assessment of the BMD acquisition program.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Does the success of that program continue to support the moratorium on nuclear weapons testing?

What we want to know, and we believe--because we believe in you--Admiral, as the principle uniform military advisor to the President, how would you manage and present the full range of advice presented to you by members of the JCS as…

If the Stockpile Stewardship Program can support a new replacement warhead, is there any doubt about its ability to support the Life Extension Program as well?

My judgment is that dispersion is still the situation. A nuclear carrier should be in Florida to replace the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy to get some dispersion.

Let me ask you, what about, for example, this relationship with Russia, and Russia now having thrown up a blockade with regard to the opportunities for joint cooperation on such a thing as national missile defense.