Design Selected for ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense Plan, Trump Announces

The Department of Defense has selected a design for President Donald Trump’s “Gold Dome” missile defense initiative, Trump announced on May 20. “I’m pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors,” Trump told reporters at the White House. In his first week in office, Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Defense to devise a plan to implement his missile defense proposal. “It should be fully operational before the end of my term. So we’ll have it done in about three years,” the president said....