We here are looking very carefully at our nuclear enterprise, the laboratories and everything else.

It's important to have certainty in this program and it's important that the workforce understand that the Nation really cares about this program.

Another way to look at this, if we deploy a very effective missile defense, the Russians might decide to use bomber forces.

If the Russians were, today, able to deploy an effective defense of Russia, our warhead requirements to maintain a deterrent would rise astronomically.

If we fail to ratify the New START treaty, what will it do to the whole issue of predictability, stability, transparency?

I hope Congress takes the actions that the administration has suggested.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Why would the Russians enter into the New START treaty with a verification regime, since none exists today, if their intention is to cheat?

You would be back into the nuclear arms race of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

That would require new bombers with nuclear capabilities, correct?

I think that the Russians intend, at this point, to comply with the New START treaty.

The other aspect here, too, is that some of our concerns are actually protecting our installations and our systems from unwanted intrusion.

Let me pose a question again to both of you that arises consistently, and that is if the failure to ratify this New START would create a situation in which there are no essential limits that are enforceable.

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