What happens when the United States tries to build a missile shield so ambitious that Russia and China start dreaming up weapons that no defense can stop?
Elements of President Donald Trump’s envisioned air and missile defense shield emerged at this weekend’s Reagan National ...
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Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” is a golden delusion

The much-ballyhooed “Golden Dome” missile defense project may be necessary for America’s national security—but the technology to operate it simply has not been created yet.
The four-star general in charge of developing Golden Dome, Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, defended the military’s ...
The Trump administration says the missile shield will be operational in the next few years.
Shortly after taking office in 2025, President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to develop a missile defense shield for the United States.
The U.S. Space Force has officially launched the competitive phase of its ambitious “Golden Dome” missile defense initiative, ...
Italian defense and aerospace firm Leonardo has unveiled the plans for the Michelangelo Dome – a multilayered air defense system. The Michelangelo Dome aims to be an integrated defense system that ...
China warned the United States that it would "resolutely counter" the proposed Golden Dome missile defense system, saying it undermines its legitimate security interests. The remarks were made on ...
So far, the Golden Dome seems more like a marketing concept designed to enrich arms contractors and burnish Trump’s image rather than a carefully thought-out defense program.
Kathryn Bigelow’s new nuclear thriller, “A House of Dynamite,” has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it portrays an unlikely scenario in which an adversary ...
The US Space Force has begun issuing prototype contracts for space-based missile interceptors, marking one of the first major steps toward the Pentagon’s proposed “Golden Dome” defense network, the ...