President Donald Trump has finally announced that he wants the United States to build a “Golden Dome” of security over the United States ushering in a period of unparalleled defence for Americans.
To truly wrap your head around how grandiose a vision of national defence this is, one simply has to look at what The Dome is meant to protect. It’s intended to form a protective missile-shield across the entire 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square km) of the United States against “next-generation" aerial threats including nuclear attacks and space threats. The United Kingdom, by comparison, is just under 94,000 square miles (242,000 square km).
