Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2025

Posted: 16th June 2025

Trump’s Golden Dome for America isn’t actually for Americans as it would siphon $175 billion away from what they really need in essential social services, writes Linda Pentz Gunter.

A Golden Dome of Doom

The Golden Dome for America, price tag $175 billion in taxpayer money, is just another reboot of a longstanding and failed missile defense program. Far from keeping Americans safe, it threatens to trigger another nuclear arms race and risks war in space. Prior iterations have had a lamentable intercept rate and if one nuclear missile gets through the Golden Dome, it will have been essentially useless. READ MORE

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