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The Rich Zeoli Show

Strategic Deterrence Expert Reacts to Golden Dome

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- From the Oval Office, President Donald Trump—alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—announced the development of a “Golden Dome” missile defense program. Trump estimates that the system will be fully operational by the time he leaves office. 4:30pm- Robert Peters—Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security—joins The Rich Zeoli Show and offers reaction to the Trump Administration’s “Golden Dome” missile defense project. Plus, he discusses his report, “A Missile Defense Review for the United States.” You can read the full report here: https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/missile-defense-review-the-united-states.

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0:00.0

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0:15.9

Okay, wonderful.

0:16.8

So let's jump over to the president making this announcement on the Golden Dome missile system.

0:22.5

I'm live today at the Heritage Foundation here in D.C. This is a big deal. Let's take a listen.

0:27.8

Kevin Kramer and Jim Banks, fantastic senators, great talents, great political talents, and people that love our country.

0:35.1

In the campaign, I promised the American people that I would build a

0:38.6

cut-in-edge missile defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile

0:44.3

attack. And that's what we're doing. Today, I'm pleased to announce that we have officially

0:49.6

selected in architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next generation technologies

0:56.0

across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors.

1:02.0

And Canada has called us and they want to be a part of it.

1:06.0

So we'll be talking to them. They want to have protection also.

1:10.0

So as usual, we help Canada do the best we can.

1:13.6

This design for the Golden Dome will integrate with our existing defense capabilities

1:19.6

and should be fully operational before the end of my term. So we'll have it done in about three years.

1:25.6

Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles,

1:31.2

even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they're launched from space.

1:37.3

And we will have the best system ever built. As you know, we helped Israel with theirs, and

1:43.7

was very successful, and now we

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