Updated: April 2006

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1. This list summarizes information available from public sources. Data were drawn primarily from: "Missile and Space Launch Capabilities of Selected Countries," The Nonproliferation Review, forthcoming 1998. Duncan Lennox, ed., Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems Issue 24, 5/97. Centre for Defence and International Security Studies, "Master Tables," CDISS website, http://www.cdiss.org. "Missile Proliferation Update," Federation of American Scientists website, http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/index.html. Data were also drawn from articles in: Air & Cosmos/Aviation International, Arms Control Reporter, Arms Control Today, Defense News, Ha'aretz, International Herald Tribune, Flight International, Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's Intelligence Review, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Nuclear News, Policy Watch, Report on Middle East Affairs, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Voprosy bezaposnosti, Washington Times, Weekly Defense Monitor, and Yedi'ot Aharonot. Additional sources consulted: Ian O. Lesser and Ashley J. Tellis, Strategic Exposure: Proliferation Around the Mediterranean (Santa Monica: RAND, 1996).. Zeev Eytan, "Regional Military Forces," The Middle East Military Balance, 1993-94 (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1994). Bates Gill, Silkworms and Summitry; Chinese Arms Exports to Iran and US-China Relations (Asia and Pacific Rim Institute of the American Jewish Committee, 1998). Dilip Hiro, The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict (London: Grafton Books, 1989). Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Organization (SIBAT), Israel's Defense Sales Directory, 1997/98 (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1997). "Worldwide Ballistic Missile Inventories," Arms Control Association website, 5/02, http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/missiles.asp. Joshua Williams, "World Missile Chart," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website, 2006, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/npp/ballisticmisssilechart.cfm. "Shavit," Israel Aircraft Industries website, viewed April 2006, http://www.iai.co.il/default.aspx?docID=15689&FolderID=14471&Lang=en.
2. The Jericho-2 guidance system and other components may be based on technology from the U.S. Pershing-2 intermediate-range ballistic missile, and from the joint U.S.-Israel Arrow anti-missile missile program. Harold Hough, "Israel's Nuclear Infrastructure," Jane's Intelligence Review, 11/94, pp. 508-511. "Israel Aims To Improve Missile Accuracy," Risk Report, 6/95, p. 9. Washington Times, 3/13/92, pp. A6, A8.
3. On 19 December 2003 Libya agreed to eliminate all its ballistic missiles with greater than a 300km range and a 500kg payload. Under this agreement, they may keep their Scud-B missiles if they are converted to a range within specified guidelines. For more information, see Sharon A. Squassoni and Andrew Feickert, Disarming Libya: Weapons of Mass Destruction, Congressional Research Service, (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2004). Sammy Salama, "Was Libya WMD Disarmament a Significant Success for Nonproliferation?" NTI Issue Brief, 9/04, http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/was-libyan-wmd-disarmament-success/.