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To these response missiles which would then fire and go up and try to hit it and take it out. ideally, they would like to hit it early on or in the middle and last resort way over here. what they want is numerous shots at it so they can stop it. that's really the goal. they have to have numerous shots. this is all still fairly new technology and not all entirely reliable. we don't know that the north koreans a the this point can really get a missile to go this far. but our ability to intercept it and stop it is also a tricky, tricky thing to pull off. look at the things we would use for this. ...

>> my view, it's a matter of time. they're demonstrating continued increase in capability, range, altitude. we have to assume the capability exists today to attack the united states. >> the u.s. military has dozens of intercepter missiles at two bases in fort greeley in alaska and vandenberg air force base to shoot down a rogue missile, gregg. >> gregg: the u.s. military tested one of the intercepter missiles. how did that go? >> the test was successful. the missile defense agency launched a kill vehicle, an intercepter missile fired from vandenberg air force because to shoot down an icbm in o...

The pacific. more than 4,000 miles away, at an airbase in california, the interceptor, or "kill vehicle," launched from an underground silo. a little over an hour later, the pentagon confirming the test was a success. it has been called the "ultimate precision guidance challenge," hitting a speeding bullet with another speeding bullet. making this test all the more remarkable. >> four miles per second. as it goes toward the united states. this is a very difficult calculation, where you have to look at its arc and you have to figure where the intercept is going to occur. >> reporter: the missil...

>> what will happen today is that the u.s. will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile unarmed of course from the marshall islands in the pacific ocean and launch the interceptor from here at vandenberg air force base in california. they hope the interceptor kill vehicle, a high-tech chunk of metal will collide high up in space and destroy it. that's a aim. not easy to do. like hitting a bullet with a bullet. shannon. >> shannon: when we talk about nukes, we have to be 100% successful stopping them any time they would be a threat. how will the test help make that happen? >> they are gett...