Chuck Hagel actually said...

America's nuclear deterrent for more than 60 years has played a central role in ensuring global security.

Hagel discusses the significance of the U.S. nuclear deterrent for global security.

01/30/2013

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A strong, agile, safe, secure, effective, nuclear arsenal for the United States is not debatable.

I supported legislation to create a bipartisan commission several years ago to help us--Senator Levin and others supported that.

Bilateral, never unilateral. Nothing was ever suggested on a unilateral basis to take down our arsenal. Negotiated, verifiable.

In the surge case in Iraq, we lost almost 1,200 dead Americans during that surge and thousands of wounded.