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First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.