Morning Jolt: What It Will Take to Create an ‘Iron Dome for America’

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January 29 2025

What It Will Take to Create an 'Iron Dome for America'

On the menu today: The executive orders are coming fast and furious now, almost faster than the news cycle can digest them. President Trump's order to create an 'Iron Dome for America' is likely to get lost in the shuffle, and it shouldn't. America's enemies are militarizing space, and even missile defense critics concede, "The arms control framework — that was developed during the Cold War and early post-Cold War period to put some guardrails on the nuclear aspirations of the world's nuclear weapon states — has fallen apart." It's fair to wonder if mutually assured destruction is a sufficient deterrent for the likes of Kim Jong-un or the Iranian mullahs. Very soon, Congress will face the question of how much it is willing to spend to upgrade us from having very little chance of shooting down an incoming ballistic missile to a somewhat better chance of shooting down that missile.

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