Rob Portman actually said...

We had a mutually assured destruction approach that really has dissolved now.

I don't think I've ever heard an agency head say, including in my time at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), that a 5 percent reduct...

I'd like to join you, Madam Chair, in welcoming those here today and tell you thank you for your service and for those who serve under you.

At that time I think 'weapons of mass destruction' referred to the Soviets almost exclusively in the possibility of a nuclear attack.