09/24/2013
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"I don't care what the current START says. You can sign a new treaty that's the same as the old one, with one comma missing, and it can last 6 months if you want to, if that's the smart thing to do."
"Just to follow up directly on that, Mr. Secretary, in general, what would be your bottom line on this in terms of, what do you think the probability is of any sort of gap, however broadly defined deve..."
"Secretary Gates has said that, without testing, it will, 'become impossible to keep extending the life of our arsenal.'"
"I was just suggesting, earlier, that logically it seems pretty clear to me we shouldn't finish a new START before the NPR is finished."