I don't find any comfort at all in what he stated. Coming close to the end of my time, let me share a couple other thoughts about which I do have strong feelings. We had all three Directors of our three labs before our committee yesterday. All three of them testified that we have to test these nuclear weapons in order to make sure they will continue to work if called upon. These are the ones who are responsible for doing that.
Verification has to be talked about.
It is kind of interesting. I will read an article in the paper a couple of days ago. This was last Sunday, I believe, talking about something that might have occurred on Saturday, less than a week ago right now. According to senior officials, the CIA has concluded that it cannot monitor low-level nuclear tests by Russia precisely enough to ensure compliance with the CTBT. . . . Twice last month, the Russians carried out what might have been nuclear explosions at its Novaya Zemlya testing site in the Arctic.