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Could be launched. >> when reagan discovered that the soviets actually did think that the united states might launch a preemptive strike, it was kind of one of these moments. my gosh. i'm going to look upon them in a different light. >> an estimated 100 million americans watched last night as some of the horror of a nuclear bomb attack on the united states was portrayed in a tv movie. >> reagan processed a lot of history through movies, and the fact that this fear of nuclear annihilation was very real, he started feeling that maybe he was put on earth here to avoid nuclear war. >> just suppose...

They could do, including intercepting north korean ships at sea or at ports. something that the obama administration got going with something called the proliferation security initiative, to inspect these things. but there is, in fact, a risk to that, as well, that you can get into a firefight with the north koreans that escalates fairly quickly. there aren't many good military options unless they see another missile that is being prepared and they decide to try to shoot it down with an anti-ballistic missile or do a preemptive strike, and that's pretty risky. >> so ron brownstein, stepping aw...

Preemptive strike. there's a lot of talk we should take military action to take down a missile if we thought that a missile are on a launch pad and had a nuclear weapon, we should take preemptive action. in this case, a satellite is unlikely to spot this missile which was liquid fueled but mobile, and very difficult to spot in the short amount of time that it was ready to launch. so there were only a couple of hours. they didn't see it quickly enough and were taken by surprise. the other piece we're reporting is it's been known former president obama did on november 10th at his first and only ...

What are you referring to specifically when you say do something? >> eboni: what i am talking about isn't necessarily a preemptive strike. i like eric's idea of aggressively downgrading their ability to further their nuclear program. i think we relate to that party. that should've been done about ten years ago. but every passing day that window gets smaller and smaller. >> eric: a redline doesn't have to mean world war iii breaks out. could be if you do another one of these tests become more dangerous warhead involved, missile test, then we are going to take out your missile system. we are not...

Declaratory policy. that is making clear to them that use of any weapons here would be met with retaliation that would essentially wipe them out. basically they want these nuclear weapons so that they aren't wiped out, so that they don't experience regime change. that would be part of deterrence. the other part is what we call flexible deterrent options and the administration is doing a little bit of that. showing the fleet, carrying out some exercises although nick's point is correct that we may have to pull those back a little bit. none of the options are great here. the military options, i ...