Rose Gottemoeller: “We are seeing new and enduring pressures on the nonproliferation regime, pressures that threaten global stability.”

The Treaty is thus manifestly in the interest of U.S. national security.

As I stated in my testimony, the Administration's decision to withdraw from the INF Treaty was legally justified but politically questionable.

You are absolutely right to emphasize that any nuclear use, big or small. It`s the absolute breaking of a taboo that has existed since World War II.

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…