Mike Turner actually said...

Both the President and NNSA and DOD have identified it with respect to the modernization plan as being necessary and essential, not merely desirable.

Turner asserts that modernization is deemed necessary by key government entities, contrary to its current perception.

04/16/2012

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The U.S. ceased underground nuclear testing in 1992. Yet, France, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea all tested after that decision.

I voted no, by the way.

I don't seem to recall a great and abiding concern each time the U.S. builds an aircraft carrier, only a nuclear weapon.

It may seem counterintuitive, but it is quite possible that further reductions in U.S. nuclear forces could precipitate proliferation rather...