The decision to elevate U.S. Cyber Command to a Unified Combatant Command rests with the President.

This cyberthreat appears to be getting bigger and bigger, more and more dangerous.

The United States has said that it will retain no more than 60 nuclear-capable deployed bombers in order to comply with New START.

In fact, I have asked every combatant commander that same question, and to a person, they have all given me essentially the same answer.

Do you think that lack of security and economic opportunity provide an opening for some of our adversaries to exert influence in these areas?

Can you describe what the Department is doing to educate servicemembers about this threat?

Planning for peace is hard. We did not do it after we toppled Saddam Hussein, and we are still paying a price for that blindness today.

The United States of America needs to step up its game here.

It sounds like to me that enforcing the deal we have is better than not having a deal.

The impact is everywhere.

If that's actually our goal, it seems to me that it would make sense that we would want the nuclear agency that's charged with monitoring this to have the tools that it needs to be able to do its job.

Now President Trump says he wants to ignore all of this and instead he has threatened to rip up the Iran nuclear deal. It's not just our deal with Iran.

Given what Iran is willing to do, I think it's a lot easier to counter their provocative actions so long as Iran does not have nuclear weapons than it would be to try to cabin Iran if they possessed a nuclear weapon.

My concern, if we unilaterally abrogated the agreement, is that we would find ourselves in a very weak position to restore the kind of sanctions that forced Iran to negotiate in the first place.

I take it from this, it is important to bring as much pressure as we can bear on China to try to get China to bring more pressure on North Korea to try to get them to abide by some kind of control agreement.

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When we can't describe even in the most general terms what will happen if you engage in a cyber attack against us, ... deterrence at that moment melts away to nothing.

But doesn't that argue, then, even more strongly for a deterrence strategy?

So I'm hearing you say be sure that they know what we're going to do.

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Are there other more achievable near-term technologies that we should be investing in right now to put us on the right path?

I think that these new domains may well be decisive in any future conflict and we should be putting a lot of attention on them.

Our potential adversaries are more interested in challenging us through cheap and asymmetric means.