Footnotes

1. See "Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat" March 2006, Page 20. See also, "Dhanush Missile Test-Fired," The Hindu, 31 March 2007. Available: http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/31/stories/2007033103761300.htm

2. "Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat." National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. March 2006. Page 20. The Indian government first acknowledged the existence of the Sagrika in October 1998, identifying it as a 250-350-kilometer sea-launched cruise missile derived from the Pithvi. Other sources maintained that the Sagrika program also contained a ballistic missile division. US reports have classified it as an SLBM.

3. Pres Information Bureau, Government of India. Available: http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=2250

4. See Siddharth Srivastava, "India Has China in its Range." Asia Times Online, 14 April 2007. Available: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ID14Df01.html. The Agni III is cited as having payload capacity of 1.5 tons, which converts to 1,361 kg.

5. See "Surya" at Global Security.org. Available: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/india/surya.htm. See also, "India to Develop Intercontinental Ballistic Missile." Deccan Herald, 25 August 2005. Available: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/Aug252005/index2032552005824.asp

6. DOD reported that Iran also produces a 200-kilometer "Zezal" missile and a 150 kilometer "Nazeat" missile, which may be variations of its "Mushak" series. Iran has also tried to acquire a complete North Korean No Dong system and the Chinese M-9 and M-11 missiles.

7. Ali Akbar Dareni, "Iran Successfully Test-Fires Missile," Associated Press, 6 September 2002. See also http://www.missilethreat.com/missilesoftheworld/id.177/missile_detail.asp.

8. "Iran Test-Fires Long Range Missile." Associated Press, reproduced in The Jerusalem Post. 23 May 2006. Available: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1148287850178.Reports on later Shahab III tests are conflicting, possible Shahab-III test in November 2006. See Nasser Karimi, "Iran Test-Fires Longer Range Missile."Associated Press, 2 November 2006. Available: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8L58JJ00&show_article=1.

9. See the Monterey Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies "Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East: Israel" web page, at http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/israel.htm.

10. See "North Korea Tests Long Range Missile." BBC News. Available http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5148648.stm.

11. See "Pakistan tests Hatf-II missile.’ The Hindu, 4 March 2007. Available http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/04/stories/2007030406400100.htm

12. See "Pakistan Tests Short-Range Hatf III." Reported by BBC and reproduced on Claremont Institute’s Missile Threat.com. Available http://www.missilethreat.com/archives/id.4131/detail.asp.

13. Agence France-Press, "Pakistan Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile." Available http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Pakistan_Test_Fires_Nuclear_Capable_Missile_999.html. Pakistan announced "serial production" of this missile in October 2000

14. Associated Press, "Pakistan test-fires medium-range missile." Posted on MSNBC website, 16 Nov 2006. Available http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15753362/.

15. Seiff, Martin, "Pakistan Tests Shaheen Missile." United Press International, 10 May 2006. The Shaheen II was tested two weeks prior to the May launch, on April 29 2006. See "Pakistan Stages New Missile Test." BBC News, 29 April 2007. Available: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4957218.stm.

16. Missiles were purchased from China in 1987. The Missiles were operationally deployed only once, and are likely no longer operational as the arsenal is aging and would take substantial efforts to maintain.