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5 January -Webinar-What is Trump’s Golden Dome?

Monday, January 5, 2026 @ 7:00 PM

REGISTER AT Massachusetts Peace Action Education

Monday, January 5, 2026 @ 7:00 PM

REGISTER AT Massachusetts Peace Action Education

Missile defense, as the term implies, is defending against enemy missiles carrying an explosive payload. The origin of these anti-missile systems dates back to the Cold War space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, an era when intercontinental ballistic missiles could be deployed in space to launch satellites to orbit or travel thousands of miles carrying nuclear weapons. Missile defense systems were deployed by both superpowers in the 1960s, but proved to be technically infeasible and prohibitively expensive. They were ultimately abandoned.

Feasibility and cost notwithstanding, the U.S. military and weapons contractors succeeded in pursuing these systems during the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations. Now, Donald Trump has launched the ambitious Golden Dome project, yet another missile defense program based on technologies and space-based interceptors proven to be unworkable.

In this webinar, we will hear three experts discuss the technical and policy aspects of Golden Dome.

December 21, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized