Mike Rounds: “They were well on their way to developing intercontinental…”

“And it was an opportunity to literally go after some really quickly developing rocket systems, missile systems, not only on the short term basis, but on the intermediate basis as well. They were well on their way to developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. It was not going to take them that much longer. They fully intended to use them and to create havoc in the Middle East.” (10:43–10:48)

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