‘Golden Dome’ and other space weapons

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Posters for the proposed Golden Dome for America missile defense shield are displayed before an event with President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump‘s Golden Dome missile defence concept revives a controversial, decades-old initiative whose ambitious construction could upend norms in outer space and reshape relations between the world’s top space powers. The announcement of Golden Dome, a vast network of satellites and weapons in Earth’s orbit set to cost US$175 billion, could sharply escalate the militarization of space, a trend...