WATCH: IN SASC STRATEGIC FORCES, KELLYQUESTIONS IF GOLDEN DOME WILL TRIGGER ANOTHER ARMS RACE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:

During a Senate Armed Services Committee Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing on Golden Dome for America, Arizona Senator and Navy combat veteran Mark Kelly questioned experts on whether the administration's proposed missile defense system could actually make the United States less safe by pushing Russia and China to build more nuclear weapons and develop new ways to defeat U.S. defenses, potentially fueling an arms race. Kelly also expressed concerns over whether the program's extraordinary cost is worth it if Russia and China simply build more weapons to defeat it in the near future.

Sen. Kelly questions David J. Trachtenberg.

Kelly opened by questioning wheth...