The US president claims that the country will be protected from space-based missile threats.
The Golden Dome, Donald Trump’s most recent defense strategy, is unveiled.
It is designed to shoot down advanced missiles heading toward the United States, and is estimated to cost $175 billion.
It will far outnumber the Iron Dome system, which Israel uses to detect incoming projectiles both in space and on the ground.
However, critics claim that it could turn around the world’s power balance.
Could the arrangement cause space to militarize and threaten the global order, then?
Could Trump’s announcement have other purposes?
Presenter:
Elizabeth Puranam
Guests:
Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow and Brookings Institution researcher in foreign policy,
Youngshik Bong, Research Associate at the Yonsei University Institute for North Korean Studies
Source: Aljazeera
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