12/01/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"I do question that. If we have nuclear weapons in the triad, for important strategic reasons, I think we should have them in the most effective, including cost-effective, way possible."
"They do this through constant surveillance of the stockpile and by implementing life extension programs (LEP) for warheads and bombs that are well past their design life."
"It means a real impact and delay in five areas."
"Despite the President's rhetoric of a world without nuclear weapons, the administration has announced its intention to maintain and modernize the nuclear triad."