President Yeltsin and I agreed in Helsinki to a road map for the START treaties to cut our nuclear arsenals over the next decade by 80 percent from their Cold War peaks, and actually to destroy the warheads so they can never used for destructive ends.
"I am quite uncomfortable going outside the Helsinki framework without the requisite analysis on a subject of such major strategic importance, " said Admiral Jay Johnson, Chief of Naval Operations, at a May 23 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.