How President Trump Can Deploy a Missile Defense Shield to Defend America in Only Three Years

During President Trump’s address to Congress last month, he announced a crucial new initiative to defend the U.S. homeland—the Golden Dome, a next-generation missile defense shield to be “all made in the USA.”

Trump noted that President Reagan had wanted to build such a system, but the technology was not yet available. He said that we now have the technology. Israel has such a system, and the United States should have one too.

President Trump signed an executive order on January 27 stating that the threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles and other advanced aerial attacks is “the most catastrophic threat facing the United States.” The executive order directed the Secretary of Defense to prepare a plan within 60 days to develop a next-generation missile defense shield to defend our country from this threat.

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