James Inhofe actually said...

by reducing strategic nuclear weapons, you exacerbate the disparity between Russia and the United States in tactical nuclear weapons.

The New START treaty is needed in order to provide a critical framework for the strategic relationship between the United States and Russia.

Is the U.S. force capable of carrying out our deterrence and extended deterrence missions now and in the future?

perhaps it was a strategic error to focus too narrowly on strategic arms and ignore Russia's superiority in tactical nuclear weapons.