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Icbm force and what that targeting challenge poses for our adversaries. could you explain that further. >> ma'am, in my review of the triad that you brought up here, senator, i looked at each one of those legs is it necessary. i haven't had access to the classified data but i had a fair amount of background on this and some of the aspect, of why we have a triad have not changed. in looking at each leg of it with the icbm force, it's clear they are so buried that any enemy that's going to take us on is going to have to commit two, three, four weapons to make sure they take each one out. the icb...

Be on the personnel and the policies and procedures for training these forces, i think it's going to be little more than a band-aid on the problem. it's not the personnel that are the problem here, it's the mission itself. for example, we have 500 highly trained air force officers in the icbm force. we put them in steel cocoons where they work around the clock underground, under the prairies of america, practicing to push a button they know they're never going to push. and if they did push that button, they would be condemning millions of innocent civilians to a horrible death. what kind of a ...

Days where it did can go to 42 or 72, literally locked in a launch control center, under the ground. there's no opportunity to go take a break or take a run. it's a tedious nature of the job. >> reporter: aside from the disciplinary issues, morale could be a problem. in a force whose cold war submission no longer perceived as a top priority. >> one area of the defense budget where we shouldn't be cutting costs it's in the management of our nuclear weapons, because the consequences of a mistake are just unimaginable. >> reporter: with all of these problems, has safety been compromised? top mili...

And the effectiveness of our icbm force. very importantly, this was a failure of some of our air men. it was not a failure of the nuclear mission. >> the officers involved have been removed or no longer able to conduct nuclear operations. a lot of questions about the arsenal and the people manning them. are they doing okay or is the morale good? there may be problems there. >> john kerry walked into the briefing room to speak about syria. it has been reiterated. the parties have signed up too. resolution after resolution. including most recently in paris