What we looked at is a conventional ICBM that has the inherent capability of a [nuclear] ICBM, with its accuracy, speed and range, ... Those military characteristics are attractive for a particular set of targets.

This means that in future the NHS will be able to map populations with these debilitating conditions with pinpoint accuracy. As the database builds up it will allow us to focus resources and plan services appropriately to help us tackle health inequalities. That means good news for NHS patients and good value for money for taxpayers.

My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.

[Gen. Lord said the nuclear deterrence mission has not changed.] We're with a 500 [missile] day-to-day high-alert force that is our deterrent capability that this nation depends on every day, ... We're proud to do that, until told otherwise.

We'll look at what's the best way to get to a replacement system over the years ahead, ... We're looking at perhaps a spiral approach to that, ... a follow on [missile] and what's the best basing mode.

[The US Space Command has a responsibility to accessing military threats.] We understand that jamming has gone on and other things have occurred, and we watch that very closely, ... If somebody is trying to use space against us, we could interrupt, in a reversible kind of way, those kind of capabilities as needed and as directed by US policy.