President Trump announces plans for “Golden Dome” missile shield
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
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President Trump announced yesterday that the US will spend $25 billion in initial funding for a “Golden Dome” hemispheric missile shield. Mr. Trump said the project will cost around $175 billion and added that it would be operational by the end of his time in office. Here’s the frightening reason: the risk of nuclear war is higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Such massive threats can feel overwhelming. However, there’s an antidote to such discouragement, one as close as tonight’s sky.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article podcast for Wednesday, May the 21st, 2025. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article authored by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:19.1 | President Trump announced yesterday that the U.S. will spend $25 billion in initial funding for a quote-unquote golden dome hemispheric missile shield. Mr. Trump said the project will cost around $175 billion and added that it would be operational by the end of his time in office. |
| 0:41.4 | The shield will be designed to block hypersonic missiles, ICBMs, and other projectiles, including |
| 0:48.2 | nuclear weapons. Crucially, it will protect the homeland from missile launches from space. |
| 0:54.6 | The news comes at a time when, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. needs to |
| 0:59.1 | spend nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years on its nuclear forces. |
| 1:04.0 | Here's the frightening reason. |
| 1:06.0 | The risk of nuclear war is higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War. |
| 1:11.6 | First, China has doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal over the past five years. |
| 1:17.6 | The next crisis over Taiwan could involve nuclear weapons. |
| 1:21.6 | As well, according to the Atlantic Council, both China and North Korea have increasing incentives and capabilities for limited nuclear attacks. |
| 1:31.3 | Also, nuclear power India says it has only paused military action against nuclear power, Pakistan. |
| 1:39.3 | Consider that Russia's new nuclear weapons doctrine states that Russia could launch nuclear weapons in |
| 1:45.9 | response to an attack on its territory by a non-nuclear armed state backed by a nuclear |
| 1:53.0 | armed one. It could therefore see an attack by Ukraine, backed by the U.S., as justifying a nuclear |
| 2:00.2 | response. |
| 2:01.5 | Such massive threats can feel overwhelming, but there's an antidote to such discouragement, |
| 2:07.0 | one as close as tonight's sky. |
| 2:09.3 | Brian Cox is a professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester in England. |
| 2:14.1 | He is also the UK's Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science and |
| 2:20.2 | visiting scholar at the Crick Institute, a biomedical research center in London. He recently recorded a |
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