Saxby Chambliss

Is there a way to confirm the actual number of warheads that the Russians have?

Secretary Clinton, Secretary Gates, and Secretary Chu, under START, warhead limits were constrained by the number of warheads a missile was actually capable of holding.

Unlike the Russians, the United States has treaty obligations with at least 30 other nations.

The Russians do not have to tell us where all their warheads are, just the number of deployed warheads.

Secretary Clinton, Secretary Gates, and Secretary Chu, under START, we were able to confidently count the number of mobile missiles.

Only the United States has to make real reductions to our nuclear forces to comply with the New START.

President Obama and the NPR put preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorists and to states that don't already possess them at the very top of our national security agenda.

However, it is true that, based on the counting rules--specifically in relation to bombers--this treaty actually allows for a significant increase in deployed warheads over the previous START.

New START does not define or limit rail-mobile, air-launched, or sea-borne ICBM launchers as START did.

I do not think we should be celebrating since the limits in the New START really only constrain the United States.

Will there be an incentive to deploy fewer warheads, so the Russians do not have to count all their warheads under the New START limits?

Secretary Clinton, Secretary Gates, and Secretary Chu, with the Russian's stated goal of developing new missile systems...

I hope the President challenges him on it, because it is a key issue with respect to where we go.

But when we talk about the elimination or not allowing credit default swaps, let me say what bothers me about that. In 2000, when we passed the Commodities Futures Modernization Act, nobody envisioned that credit default swaps would…

The increased stability achieved by removing Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicle capability (de-MIRVing) from U.S. ICBMs is not dependent on Russia de-MIRVing its nuclear force.

NPR guidance is to retain both the B-2 and B-52, and convert some of the latter to a conventional-only role to meet the New START treaty central limits for deployed and non-deployed strategic delivery systems.

A credible U.S. nuclear deterrent . . . assures allies that the United States will deter, prevent, or limit damage to them from adversary attacks.

The nuclear enterprise remains, today and for the foreseeable future, the foundation of U.S. deterrence strategy and defense posture.

The NPR states clearly that the United States will not develop any new nuclear warheads.

The Department plans to eliminate 51 B-52Gs, 12 B-1Bs, and 13 B-52Hs currently stored at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base once the New START treaty enters into force.

If that's the issue that we're going to prevent, then we have to have sanctions put in place in time to stop the weaponization of Iran within 12 months.

I certainly share the thoughts that Senator McCain expressed and Senator Brown obviously expressed also about the fact that, in the eyes of the American people, we seem to be treading water on this issue while Iran is just sitting back and…

It really is, as Senator McCain said in so many words, time to quit ratcheting up the rhetoric and start ratcheting up the activity.

If the Air Force determined that developing an exportable version of the F-22 that properly protected sensitive technology were possible, and if a trustworthy ally with whom the United States partners with regularly were to express an…

What does concern me is that we're talking about spending tax dollars on a fighter that is second or third generation.