Analysts: American Iron Dome reduces nuclear coercion but drives arms race
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to build an American version of the Iron Dome to shield the U.S. from aerial attacks will deter China and Russia from coercing the U.S. using nuclear weapons but could drive a three-way arms race, said analysts. The U.S. government’s Missile Defense Agency...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to build an American version of the Iron Dome to shield the U.S. from aerial attacks will deter China and Russia from coercing the U.S. using nuclear weapons but could drive a three-way arms race, said analysts.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    6·
    20 hours ago

    It was a stupid idea in the 1980s. Reagan called it ‘the Strategic Defense Initiative.’ The rest of the world called it ‘Star Wars.’