Impressed with the success of Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense against a attack by Iranian missiles and drones, President Trump has ordered the US war department to begin research on developing what he calls a ”Golden Dome” defense system like it to supposedly protect the entire US from a nuclear attack.

The problem is, the only reason Israel’s “Iron Dome” system worked as well as it did (and not perfectly), is that it was defending against slow-moving Iranian drones and short-range ballistic missiles that only move at speeds of well under 20,000 mph. A nuclear attack such as would be launched by Russia, China of even North Korea, would involve intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads arriving at speeds of 13-14,000 miles per hour.

Trump (a man so ignorant of science that during the Covid Pandemic he proposed curing people by having them drink bleach, shine ultra-violet light into their stomachs, and take Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medicine, not an anti-viral drug), was clearly unaware of and incurious about how the Israeli missile and drone system works.

The thing is,........

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