Congressmember Meek
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Top Trump Official Falls Apart Under Cross-Exam on War!! · 26 Mar 2026
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It is a truly amazing fact that the advances made in the science of nuclear weapons over the last 25 years allow the NNSA labs to now know and understand more about the function and performance of nuclear weapons than they did in the days of testing.
The NNSA complex is old.
Much of it dates back to the Manhattan Project and the early days of the Cold War, and it needs to be replaced or refurbished.
Fourth, we should never forget that, ultimately, it is people who sustain our deterrent.
Military and civilians at DoD and NNSA work to maintain the continuum of deterrence.
beginning with threat prevention and nonproliferation.
They need support, and we need to ensure that the entire nuclear enterprise always has the best and the brightest.
And fifth, our allies and partners also rely on the U.S.
nuclear deterrent as the ultimate guarantor of their security against nuclear attack, however remote the possibility.
As much as they want the U.S.
deterrent to be safe, secure, and reliable, they do not want a new arms race and a return to the days of mutual assured destruction.
As of September 2017, the U.S.
has 3,822 warheads in its stockpile, more than enough, with another 2,000-plus warheads awaiting dismantlement.
This is down from the mid-60s peak of 31,255 warheads.
We surely don't want a return to those days and increase the risk of nuclear war rather than reduce it.
In conclusion, in my prepared testimony, I referenced a 2010 op-ed by former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and Jake Garn, a former Republican Senator from Utah, supporting New START.
In that piece, they cautioned against seeking a silver bullet that solves all problems.
New START was under consideration at the time that they wrote the op-ed and was being criticized for not covering the full range of nuclear weapons and delivery systems.
In many respects, that is what the Trump administration is doing again with respect to extending New START, criticizing it for what it isn't and was never intended to be, a silver bullet treaty.
The treaty should be extended and time provided to take the next step towards stability.
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