The U.S. will build a “Golden Dome” to guard against missile attacks, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.
“In the campaign, I promised the American people I would build a cutting-edge missile-defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “That is what we are doing.”
The president said he has “selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the lands, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors.”
The United States has provided significant funding for Israel’s missile-defense system, known as the Iron Dome, and Trump says the technology that now exists is further advanced from that which the U.S. helped Israel build.
Canada would also like “to have protection,” so Trump said, “as…
