Dick Lugar: “How, Secretary Panetta, would you begin to describe the military problem here?”

Congress, via the power of the purse, also has the ability to prevent the administration from taking steps, such as testing and fielding new and unnecessary land-based intermediate-range missile systems.

The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program has been a true success story and has made incredible contributions to U.S. national security in the last 20 years.

Diplomacy is not a luxury. It is essential to American national security, especially in an era of terrorism.

I believe that the verification provisions of New START are important, to begin with, leaving aside anything else.