"The Office of the Secretary of Defense recently released a hypersonics roadmap that covered a range of activities..."
"As we say with our NATO partners, we went in together, we'll adjust together, and we'll depart together."
"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..."
"I feel sorry for you because you're being asked very specific questions about how you're going to do things..."
"It's been nearly a decade since the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States was completed."
"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."
"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..."
"In your opinion does the W76-2 make nuclear weapons use more or less likely?"
"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."
"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."