Trump's Golden Dome will cost 10 to 100 times more than the Manhattan Project
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- President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile defense shield proposal is estimated to cost several hundred billion dollars over several decades.
- Congress allocated $25 billion in July as a down payment for new missile-defense technologies.
- The White House initially projected Golden Dome to cost $175 billion over three years, but experts argue this is insufficient.
- A study by the American Enterprise Institute highlights a multi-trillion-dollar gap between promised capabilities and realistic funding.
- Golden Dome aims to defend against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles, drones, and other next-gen aerial threats.
- Todd Harrison's paper 'Build Your Own Golden Dome' analyzes costs, choices, and tradeoffs for the Pentagon.
- The final cost depends on geographic coverage, threat types, and system resilience, with slight changes impacting costs by hundreds of billions.