Latest North Korea Missile Test Offers Opportunity to List Global Cities US Arsenal Can Hit: Every Single One. Within an Hour.

With many headlines overnight warning that Pyongyang now has the ability “to hit Washington, D.C.” with an intercontinental ballistic missile, the latest test by North Korea on Tuesday offers a new opportunity to remind people about the list of global cities the U.S. military could strike with its massive arsenal of ICBMs, Naval-based cruise missiles, and fleet of nuclear submarines: All of them. Every single one. Probably within the hour.

While the United Nations and others expressed serious concern about the lastest test—and the Trump administration announced a fresh round of sanctions on Wednesday morning—there was little (if any) open acknowledgement that while the North Koreans make steady progress on their ICBM and nuclear weapons programs, the U.S. maintains the world’s largest and most sophisticated atomic weapons program in the form of the Nuclear Triad while also commanding an arsenal of hundreds of ICBMs with ranges long enough to hit any major city in the world.

Capable of flying over 6,000 miles towards a precision target, the Minuteman-III missile—of which it has more than 400—remains the U.S. military’s premiere ICBM. In addition to U.S. Navy ships position in key locations around the world armed with countless cruise missiles, the American arsenal also includes an unparalled nuclear strike capability which—despite the inherent threat of any and all atomic weapons—far surpasses anything the North Koreas could develop within the coming years, if ever. As Newsweek documented earlier this year, while North Korea maintains a large and powerful military relative to its size and economic position,