james searing. he is director of the missile defense agency and he sat through a rare and exquisite interview with us. listen here. it s a matter of time. there are demonstrating increased capability range, altitude and capacity over the last several years and more recently over the last several months. what will happen today is the u.s. will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile from the marshall islands and the pacific ocean, a few minutes after that, they will launch the interceptor missile from here at vandenberg air force base. they hope that that interceptor in the proximally 5-foot chunk of metal will strike the icbm high above the pacific ocean and destroy it. most of the interceptors that the u.s. house, 32 of them in fact are based at fort greely alaska. we got an exclusive tour of the