*sober Do NHI have the capability to stop a full scale nuclear exchange? THAAD interceptors can intercept a maximum of two or three intercontinental ballistic missiles in tests. Nine nations have nuclear weapons. Their dominant position would be threatened if they assumed solely their own nuclear stockpile was defunct. (Nine countries possess nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea.) Elizondo expands on his "sombe...