As we enter into moving forward with the NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act], it is going to be incredibly important for your testimony today to help us lay a foundation for ...
I will dispense with an opening statement, but let me just record my worry about the personnel impacts of moving the hea...
Your testimony of validating the threat, the diminishing nature of our deterrent, and the critical aspect of our pursuin...
We have allowed our nuclear deterrent to atrophy.
We are doing no new testing. We are not even sure if these other nations... are even complying with the Nuclear Test Ban...
I think that holiday is over.
We will bury you.
To paraphrase former Senator John McCain, Russia is a Mafia-run gas station with nuclear weapons.
Thank you, Mr. Langevin. I appreciate that.
It is time for us to stop discussing what we should do next and go do it.
I agree that nuclear deterrence is the department's highest priority mission.