Russia has undertaken the exotics with Skyfall, the nuclear-powered cruise missile that is supposed to orbit the Earth.

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 the work that is necessary in funding the modernization of…

I will dispense with an opening statement, but let me just record my worry about the personnel impacts of moving the headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama.

Your testimony of validating the threat, the diminishing nature of our deterrent, and the critical aspect of our pursuing modernization is going to be very important today.

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 Treaty.

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.