Rose Gottemoeller: “It will provide ongoing transparency and predictability regarding the world's two largest nuclear arsenals.”

Allies have not expressed concerns with the New START treaty. To the contrary, the response from our allies to the conclusion of the New START treaty has been overwhelmingly positive.

It is in our national security interest and in our allies' interest that the INF Treaty remains in force.

We need to be ready to roundly condemn any use of chemicals whether the ammonia they have stockpiled apparently, or whether it`s any kind of chemical agent.

I am concerned, frankly, if New START goes out of force or is seen as unlikely to be extended that this will deal a significant blow to this larger non-proliferation system that keeps an explosion of nuclear weapons States from occurring…