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Distance to our missile fields and bomber bases and so unfortunately we have left that flank unprotected. there are ideas and recommendations we've made for trying to, in a hurry, close this gap in our defenses. they could also do it by launching a balloon or a short range missile off of a ship, off of a freighter. north korea had a freighter with a nuclear capable missile in the gulf of mexico back in 2013. we only found out about that because they tried getting back to the panama canal and found two of the missiles hidden under hundreds of pounds of bags on the freighter. they demonstrated t...

Admiral syring. shannon, one day this might not be a test but real thing. shannon. >> shannon: very true. better to get it ironed out now. do we know if the system is going to be expanded? >> yeah, it is. there are currently 36 of these interceptor missiles in the united states. four of them here ativan denberg air force base in california. 32 in alaska. we were given exclusive access to the missile fields there and the silos 70 feet deep silos in which the 54-foot long missiles are kept. there will be eight more across the nation. four more of those up at fort grealey by the end of this year....

Hostile incoming war heads. >> it is a complex system of satellites and radars. at fort greeley 26 of the interceptors are in the ground and ready to fire. the lieutenant colonel. >> it is one of our missile fields. that's the silo over there. that is where the ground basin ter scepters are located. >> it launches right here out of this frozen ground. how deep are they in the ground? how far awapart? >> it is almost like a wal-mart parking lot where we have spaced safe distance from each other. you have roughly 100 plus foot of silo. >> if a threat came while you and i are having this conversa...

Hostile incoming war heads. >> it is a complex system of satellites and radars. at fort greeley 26 of the interceptors are in the ground and ready to fire. the lieutenant colonel. >> it is one of our missile fields. that's the silo over there. that is where the ground basin ter scepters are located. >> it launches right here out of this frozen ground. how deep are they in the ground? how far awapart? >> it is almost like a wal-mart parking lot where we have spaced safe distance from each other. you have roughly 100 plus foot of silo. >> if a threat came while you and i are having this conversa...

National missile defense, not the policy of president obama, kind of scaling back on our national missile defense. our ambitions, really, but building them up and something the commentators have been writing about, an electromagnetic pulse attack, which would be a nuclear explosion, it doesn't necessarily cause a lot of damage on the ground but it is higher in the atmosphere and disrupts our communications, our computers, our information technology. which, given the way we communicate today, could have an absolutely devastating effect. martha: who do you think the biggest nuclear threat is fro...