"Some critics have called the U.S. low-yield W76-2 submarine launched ballistic missile warhead 'destabilizing.'"
"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."
"The premise of, if the United States was restrained, that the world would be restrained, is dangerously not true."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your statement concerning the triad. I know that our witnesses before us today will be echoing the same sentiment."
"On April 20, 2021, in a response to Senator Cotton, you stated that reducing the number of ICBMs or removing that leg of the triad would 'solve a critical problem for China.'"
"I think, you know, certainly, that is a great illustration of rebutting the philosophy of 'if we denuclearize, others won't pursue nuclear weapons.'"
"protecting our service members should be an incredibly high priority."
"This makes it even more critical that we execute the modernization of all legs of the nuclear triad."
"Russia's stockpile of non-strategic nuclear weapons, already large and diverse, is being modernized with an eye towards greater accuracy, longer ranges, and lower yields, to suit their potential warfi..."
"The U.S. has determined that Russia's actions have strained key pillars of arms control architecture."
"Clearly what they are, what Russia and China is doing is not a response or result of United States actions."