pentagon talking about this at all, this comes from the defense intelligence agency, sometimes they don t always agree with the pentagon s own intelligence assessments. that is correct. the dia is not located at the pentagon, they are across the river. nobody is shooting down this report but they are taking it very seriously, they are not commenting right now. it is worth noting that the trump defense budget actually cuts missile defense, so while they are planning for 44 ground based interceptors by the end of the year, members of congress and the chairman of the house armed services committee want to increase missile defense as well as senator john mccain. of course, with all the focus on missile defense, it is worth talking about the pentagon s missile offense. the united states has over 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles of its own located on bases across three states, in montana, south dakota and wyoming.
intercontinental ballistic missile when it shot one down in space. now, it s noteworthy there is another kind of missile defense and that s from u.s. navy warships. in june the uss paul jones conducted a ballistic missile test and it failed. now, that s missile defense. there is a third option, people don t talk about it that much, but that s missile offense. the united states has over 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles of its own. it just conducted a test last month. these 400 missiles are located at air force bases in north dakota, montana and wyoming. the u.s. navy has ballistic missile submarines of the ohio class. each ballistic missile submarine, harris, carries 24 ballistic missiles. each one of those carries up to 10 independent warheads larger than the size of hiroshima and hit 240 cities. also has a fleet of long range bombers, b-52 and long range bombers. harris: as we get that information out, one thing
the fourth test that the air force s minuteman three missile. lots of focus on missile defense, the u.s. has a sizeable missile offense with 400 of these missiles located in silos across air force bases in montana, wyoming and north korea and submarines can deliver nuclear tests as well. it will than launched from california and travel 4,000 miles into the pacific. bill: see how it goes. there is a lot of activity surrounding that geopolitical mail tear story military story at the moment. shannon: in the meantime eric trump says it s past time for republicans to fight for his father s agenda. i want somebody to start fighting for him. he is the best fighter in the world. he will do a better job fighting for himself than all of them will fighting for him.
that have been reported about iran. i think the negotiating track is especially important not necessarily because we can get the north koreas to slap their heads and say, okay we ll stop this. but rather to keep china engaged, work closely with china and make sure there s no daylight between us and the south koreas. you talked about missile defense. does the u.s. have interceptability to shoot down should north korea take such attack? we have the capability. but the technology is developing fast in that area. the technology on missile defense is developing more quickly than the north korean technology on missile offense. so we should really be continuing to develop that. but, yes, we have some capabilities now. north korea conducted a ballistic missile test on may 8th. that violated a u.n. resolution. kim jong-un does not seem to care.
reminded of our posture in eastern european it raises the question about the administration. has there foreign policy made us somewhat more vulnerable, that is one of the questions that i want to ask you, and sort of what has the reaction of world powers been to that? right, i think that the example of flexibility already given towards russia early in the administration of pulling back on our commitment to missile offense in eastern europe was a similar miscalculation. it was not news welcomed by eastern european our allies, it was a signal that was also felt by our east asian allies, if we are weak evening our commitment in one theatre it affects people s calculus in another. the idea of reset ago relationship with russia didn t pan out in terms of the reality of their assistance and mitigating the threat. martha: not at all. and sheparding a new way forward in north korea, areas where they are involved. martha: i want to play this sound byte once again. all of this goes to our mi