Jeff Merkley actually said...

One of the things that I have heard often is simply the access to lower interest financing as a significant hurdle.

We have not been checking and balancing the executive branch for 60-some odd years, maybe longer.

It has not generally been the retention of the potential for first use as it has been assured destruction.

We have had serious conversations about the potential of using a nuclear weapon in--as a first-use weapon both in Vietnam and in Korea.