And it would stop us from ensuring the safety and reliability of our nation's deterrent, should the need arise. On these crucial matters, it offers only words and false hopes and high intentions - with no guarantees whatever. In a speech to the graduating class of West Point Military Academy in May, Gore detailed his view. We need to continue on a course of deeper reductions. But it is critical that we have the right approach in doing so.
Strategic stability can never be a one-way street.
It either exists for both the United States and Russia - or neither. Reductions alone do not guarantee stability - it is how reductions are made and how they interact with defensive systems that makes the difference. It is an indispensable tool in our fight to stop the spread of nuclear weapons around the world. I support the Treaty wholeheartedly, and I will continue to work to see it ratified. It is these states that represent the emerging threat to our country.