he is our pentagon correspondent. he s on the phone. hans, because you ve been following all the incremental developments on this weaponry, tell me for somebody who s watching this who doesn t have the inside knowledge about what the significance of this milestone is, what it is. the significance of this is a consensus among intelligence agencies. before we ve been talking to a lot of officials inside the pentagon, and every now and again you d find someone that says i think they have achieved miniaturization. this is the ability to shrink a warhead, make it small enough so it can fit in the cone of an intercontinental ballistic missile. so that s both good news and bad news. the good snuz news is there s b planning long-term for this that they were very close. some inside the pentagon already thought they had achieved it. the scary news i shouldn t put it in good and bad terms. the scary news is now there s a consensus and consensus at this level, consensi i should say, force poli