I believe that unilateral disarmament is certainly, you know, as a policy, idiotic because we don't have a support for our deterrence and certainly we have no bargaining chips when we meet with our adversaries.

What is your commitment to ensuring that the flow of Commercial Imagery to the Services and Combatant Commands is not interrupted?

I think our over-classification and tendency to over-classify is still a little bit of the vestige of the Cold War mindset.

We certainly don't want to weaken those that we have.

We continually hear from General Raymond the issue of the provocative actions that China and Russia are taking in space.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense recently released a hypersonics roadmap that covered a range of activities...

I want to share your affinity for GAO. There has been a tremendous amount of important legislation and policy changes that have come out of GAO reports.

Getting information out in the public domain actually puts information in the hands of those parliaments and legislators.

I agree with you, this is one of the most important topics, perhaps besides nuclear modernization, that we are dealing with.

Demand for commercial imagery, data and services is greatly increasing and I understand that we will soon see that reflected in requirements from the COCOMs and Services.

I think we have work to do now and in the future.

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I feel sorry for you because you're being asked very specific questions about how you're going to do things...

What I am going to ask you is, since you are planning and since just about everybody on this committee believes you're going to have to go back in...

As we say with our NATO partners, we went in together, we'll adjust together, and we'll depart together.

As we talk about Russia and China, it's important not to lose sight of the Iran and DPRK ICBM threats.

Our policy is very clear--the U.S. would only consider the employment of nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the U.S., its Allies, and partners.

You see today that the United States is increasingly putting itself in a disadvantage with its adversaries that have nuclear capabilities and are increasing those capabilities.

It's been nearly a decade since the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States was completed.

Some critics have called the U.S. low-yield W76-2 submarine launched ballistic missile warhead 'destabilizing.'

Earlier this year, several news outlets reported that 16 new ICBM silos had been discovered in a training area in Northern China through the use of open source satellite imagery.

In your opinion does the W76-2 make nuclear weapons use more or less likely?

While we have delayed our modernization, Russia has modernized with what it is called exotics, people are referring as exotics, new nuclear weapons capabilities, and China is definitely increasing its capabilities, perhaps doubling its…

I am asking you solely about the Minuteman III, because this has been exhaustively studied and conclusively determined to be unable to be life-extensioned.

The premise of, if the United States was restrained, that the world would be restrained, is dangerously not true.