china s effort to race to reach nuclear parity with the united states and perhaps one day surpass us. that would be very dangerous to the united states. not just because of the threat those nuclear weapons pose if they re used but ability to deter the united states to defend our own interests whether it s standing up for our manufacturing jobs and our trading rights or defending our partners and allies like japan and taiwan. it s imperthat the biden administration modernize our own forces so that can never happen. john: mark milley of the joint chiefs issued a sharp warning. listen to what he said. we re witnessing one of the largest shifts in global geostrategic power. we in the united states military don t do a fundamental change to ourselves. in the coming 10 to 15 to 20 years. then we re going to be on the wrong side of a conflict. john: one of the things, senator, the chairman worried about is this new hypersonic