Interview: Why Trump’s Golden Dome must be opposed

In January 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the US armed forces to construct a missile defense system – the ‘Golden Dome’ – a proposed multi-layer defense system, comparable to the Iron Dome system in Israel which has recently shown to have serious flaws. It aims to place and maintain space weapons in orbit, for the first time in history.

The proposed systems will be exorbitant. According to US Congress sources it could cost several trillion dollars. This would require the US to cut virtually most of its remaining social and environmental programs.

Trump wants such a system, so that the US can launch attacks on another nation and be confident that it has sufficient defenses to reduce the impact of any retaliatory strikes.

As the US advances its war drive, it is developing its military alliances with other countries and locking them into its war preparations. Military coordination is being stepped up with increased ‘interoperability’ of hardware. In these alliances, such as NATO, it is always the US that is ‘in charge of the tip of the spear’.

Bruce Gagnon, in discussion with Dae-Han Song, explains why the proposed Golden Dome should be opposed. Watch the video here

Bruce Gagnon has been organizing to stop the new arms race in space (Star Wars) since 1982. He began by coordinating the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice from 1983-1998. During those years, in 1992, he co-founded the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space that he now coordinates.

You may see and add your name (or organization name) to the Global Network statement opposing Golden Dome here.

Dae-Han Song is a part of the International Strategy Center and the Korea Policy Institute. He is a member of the international No Cold War collective.

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