{"id":21050,"date":"2025-01-29T01:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21050"},"modified":"2025-01-29T03:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T03:28:55","slug":"trump-orders-iron-dome-for-u-s-but-freezes-funds-for-nuclear-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21050","title":{"rendered":"Trump Orders \u2018Iron Dome\u2019 for U.S., but Freezes Funds for Nuclear Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now says will provide \u201cfor the common defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Star Wars is back, with an executive order from President Trump that the White House said<\/a> \u201cdirects the building of the Iron Dome missile defense shield for America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The order, issued on Monday night, didn\u2019t quite do that. It was more a vaguely worded set of instructions to accelerate current programs or explore new approaches to defending the continental United States than a blueprint for arming the heavens with thousands of antimissile weapons, sensors and tracking devices.<\/p>\n

But two blocks away, on the same evening, the Office of Management and Budget issued a 56-page spreadsheet that detailed the suspension of funding for thousands of programs. They included most of the major U.S. efforts to reduce the amount of nuclear fuel that terrorists might seize, to guard against biological weapon attacks and to manage initiatives around the globe to curb the spread of nuclear arms.<\/p>\n

The two announcements seemed to encapsulate the administration\u2019s conflicting instincts in its opening weeks. Mr. Trump wants to build big and take the Space Force he created to new heights, even at the risk of new arms races. That effort has been underway since Ronald Reagan\u2019s day, with only mixed results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But in its drive to shut down programs it believes could be creations of the so-called deep state, the administration wants to cut off funding for many programs that seek to reduce the chances of an attack on the United States \u2014 an attack that could very well come in forms other than a missile launched from North Korea, China or Russia.<\/p>\n

A judge paused Mr. Trump\u2019s spending freeze on Tuesday, but the president\u2019s intentions are clear.<\/p>\n

Though Mr. Trump calls his plan the Iron Dome, it has little if any resemblance to the Israeli system<\/a> of the same name that has succeeded in destroying small missiles that move at a snail\u2019s pace compared with the blinding speeds of intercontinental warheads.<\/p>\n

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The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now says will provide \u201cfor the common defense.\u201dStar Wars is back, with an executive order from President Trump that the White House said \u201cdirects the building of the Iron Dome missile defense shield for America.\u201dThe order, issued on Monday night, didn\u2019t quite do that. It was more a vaguely worded set of instructions to accelerate current programs or explore new approaches to defending the continental United States than a blueprint for arming the heavens with thousands of antimissile weapons, sensors and tracking devices.But two blocks away, on the same evening, the Office of Management and Budget issued a 56-page spreadsheet that detailed the suspension of funding for thousands of programs. They included most of the major U.S. efforts to reduce the amount of nuclear fuel that terrorists might seize, to guard against biological weapon attacks and to manage initiatives around the globe to curb the spread of nuclear arms.The two announcements seemed to encapsulate the administration\u2019s conflicting instincts in its opening weeks. Mr. Trump wants to build big and take the Space Force he created to new heights, even at the risk of new arms races. That effort has been underway since Ronald Reagan\u2019s day, with only mixed results.But in its drive to shut down programs it believes could be creations of the so-called deep state, the administration wants to cut off funding for many programs that seek to reduce the chances of an attack on the United States \u2014 an attack that could very well come in forms other than a missile launched from North Korea, China or Russia.A judge paused Mr. Trump\u2019s spending freeze on Tuesday, but the president\u2019s intentions are clear.Though Mr. Trump calls his plan the Iron Dome, it has little if any resemblance to the Israeli system of the same name that has succeeded in destroying small missiles that move at a snail\u2019s pace compared with the blinding speeds of intercontinental warheads.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21052,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21053,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21050\/revisions\/21053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}