• The Pershing II is a solid propellant, terminally guided, two-stage ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

• The Pershing II's Soviet counterpart SS-20 was almost 20 feet taller, could go three times as far and dispatch three separate warheads.

• The Pershing II and Soviet SS-20 have been eliminated under the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).

• The Pershing II is considered the most accurate and deadly of the missiles banned by the INF Treaty.