How can further nuclear weapons reductions beyond New START strengthen national and security?

What are the risks and benefits of having ICBMs on high-alert?

Acting Administrator Miller, B&W got nearly 60% of its award fee in FY2012. The security failure at Y-12 only cost them $12 million in un-earned fee.

Here is a guy who has been a loyal public servant for 29 years who is trying to express a viewpoint.

But immediately prior to the incident, your agency in its wisdom had given Babcock & Wilcox an excellent rating for its safeguards and security work, and they received their full $51 million incentive fee in fiscal year 2011, even though…

Trust me, I am not suggesting spending more money. I am asking what value the taxpayer got for this extraordinary outlay over many years.

Let's forget politics for a second and the view of the Department, because right now the Department doesn't have a lot of credibility on the security issue.

Do you believe that the incident is the result of overly burdensome security requirements, as some have claimed?

Acting Administrator Miller, how are you ensuring that Federal oversight performs site vulnerability analyses that look at the systemic impact and the broader implications of individual security decisions?

Do you think that NNSA has gone too far in delegating responsibility for making security decisions to its contractors?

Secretary Poneman, are lessons from the deficiencies in security oversight being applied to safety oversight? How?