MOSCOW, June 30 (RIA Novosti) - About 25 countries have ballistic missiles or are on the brink of creating them, Russia's defense minister said Friday.
"The arsenal of delivery means for weapons of mass destruction is vast," Sergei Ivanov, who is also a Russian deputy prime minister, told a news conference. "Even now about 25 states either have ballistic missile systems or will be able to build them in the foreseeable future."
He said some states, as well as certain organizations, above all terrorist groups, "are attempting to gain access to sensitive technologies and products by any means, and sometimes they succeed in this."
Ivanov had earlier told the news conference that all industrialized and some developing countries were capable of producing biological and chemical weapons.
