U.S. President Donald Trump picked a design for his Golden Dome missile defense system and named a leader of the ambitious $175 billion defense program. Here are details on Golden Dome, where the idea comes from and how it will work.

The so-called "Golden Dome", inspired by Israel's land-based Iron Dome defense shield, is an ambitious project aimed at blocking threats from China and Russia, which the United States views as its two biggest geopolitical competitors.

Chuck DeVore, expert at Texas Public Policy Foundation, argued a decreased cost to orbit made it less expensive to defend against nuclear missiles than to build a bigger nuclear arsenal, with Golden Dome changing the game of homeland defenses.

China has raised "grave" concerns over President Donald Trump's proposed "Golden Dome" anti-missile defense system, warning that it will trigger an arms race in space. "It will exacerbate the risk of turning outer space into a battlefield and starting an arms race,

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President Donald Trump announced construction will begin soon on a "Golden Dome," a new missile defense system to protect the US from foreign attacks.

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