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Senators detail desired missile defense elements for Trump’s Iron Dome
Two senators introduced a bill that would authorize $19.5 billion for fiscal 2026 to build out Trump's "Iron Dome for America ...
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Donald Trump's Iron Dome Over US: What We Know
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to forge ahead with an American version of Israel's famed Iron Dome air defense system, although pressing questions remain about how the Republican ...
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Nuclear Deterrence and U.S. Missile Defense
Time for Change America's outdated nuclear deterrence policy is hindering the country's missile defense program, constraining ...
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Trump's missile shield marks shift in homeland defense strategy
Trump's order establishing an Iron Dome for America includes a wider focus to defend the homeland from air and missile ...
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US Missile Defense
What's more, missile defense systems create other problems including potential overconfidence in the defense and incentive for adversaries to build more nuclear weapons. Known as the “Ground-based ...
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We Need More Missile Defenses
the land-mobile Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD); or our Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) based in Alaska and California. A key lesson of the Ukraine war is that protracted ...
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Trump’s missile shield marks shift in homeland defense strategy
the United States’ homeland missile defense posture consists of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System. The system, developed to counter intercontinental ballistic missile attacks aimed at ...
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Senators detail desired missile defense elements for Trump’s Iron Dome
The plan also calls for using blimps for detection of complex threats, expanding the current Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, at Fort Greely, Alaska, and adding a brand new ...