BB - Ha! I laugh. There is so little chance of North Korea, Syria, or Iran ever attacking the USA with an atomic missile that you'd be about as well off to worry about receiving such an attack from Jupiter or Mars.

It is your country, BB, that is menacing them and it always has been. It is your country that surrounds them with its military forces and threatens they repeatedly and suggests that "all options are on the table" (meaning even a nuclear strike on Iran by USA forces). That is why they are so desirous of arming themselves in such a way as to deter such an attack.

As for the unknown secretive entities like Al-Queda...yes...they are some danger to the USA. But the danger they pose to you is very small compared to the danger you pose to other countries, and it is a response to prior American intervention and gross interference in many other societies. It would not be happening at all if the USA had left those people alone for the last few decades since WWII. You didn't leave them alone because you were out playing the game of world empire.

Well, you poke the hornet's nest long enough, you beat up on people long enough, and eventually some angry ones will come out and sting you...but YOU were the one who decided to poke the hornet's nest in the first place. You sewed the wind. You (as a political entity) are NOT the victims in this matter, you are the perpetrators.