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By next term we will build a great Iron Dome over our country,
Trump said during a West Palm Beach event on June 14. I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete,
China continues to rapidly expand its conventional and nuclear missile forces,
he said, while a number of other countries are developing non-ballistic long-range strike capabilities Official United States homeland missile defense policy has remained only to stay ahead of rogue-nation threats and accidental or unauthorized missile launches,
Trump said in the executive order South Korea is building a preemptive conventional capability to defeat a nuclear armed foe,
William Alberque, a visiting fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center and a former director of NATO's Arms Control, Disarmament and WMD Non-Proliferation Center, previously told Newsweek The United States will provide for the common defense of its citizens and the Nation by deploying and maintaining a next-generation missile defense shield,
Over the past 40 years, rather than lessening, the threat from next-generation strategic weapons has become more intense and complex,
Monday's executive order said, citing unnamed adversaries' development of missile launch capabilities They knock down just about every one of them,
Trump said at the Miami meeting Other areas the secretary will study include reinstating troops that were pushed out because of COVID-19 vaccination mandates and developing an Iron Dome anti-missile system for the United States,
Pete Hegseth, who's going to be great, by the way… I think he's going to be fantastic,
And now we have phenomenal technology. You see that with Israel,
We're also doing the Iron Dome all made in America,
We have to have a strong, strong defence,
Trump said from the podium You know, we protect other countries, but we don’t protect ourselves,
We need to immediately begin the construction of a state-of-the-art Iron Dome missile defense shield,
news agency AFP quoted Donald Trump telling a Republican congressional retreat in Miami on the day new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took office There are more executive orders coming that we fully support, on removing DEI inside the Pentagon, reinstating troops who were pushed out because of Covid mandates, the Iron Dome for America,
We will replenish our military and build an Iron Dome missile defense system to ensure that no enemy can strike our homeland
he said this summer at the Republican National Convention The US already operates systems such as Patriot, THAAD, and Aegis, which address medium- and long-range threats, including ballistic and cruise missiles. Adding a short-range solution like Iron Dome would require extensive modifications to ensure interoperability and avoid redundancy,
Pundits interpret what’s happening to fit their narrative,
A US version of Iron Dome would likely be deployed to protect battlefield units and strategic sites, rather than cities, which are better safeguarded by systems designed to counter intercontinental ballistic missile threats,
Kalisky told The Media Line
