It sees Iraq and Iran developing fearsome new weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
All missiles delivered in January 2010.
This missile could deliver the same 18-20 Mt warhead 16,000 km.
But Russia could provide, or China could develop, technology that would enable the missiles to deliver a Chinese nuclear warhead.
The radar-guided missiles can deliver a 200-kiloton nuclear warhead to a target beyond the horizon in about two minutes.
Each day that passes brings Saddam Hussein further on the path to developing biological and nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
Supercomputers are the most powerful tools available for designing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
Sooner or later another Saddam Hussein, or even the current one, may get nuclear warheads and the missiles to deliver them.
The American trident missile can deliver eight 100-kiloton nuclear warheads to a range of 7,400 km.
The emergent space age showed that missiles could also deliver those nuclear weapons anywhere in the world.