Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ Space Weapons Plan Ignores Physics and Fiscal Reality
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong,” according to H. L. Mencken. Today we might ponder his words to diagnose the revival of another neat, plausible and boneheaded idea: ringing the planet with orbiting missiles to somehow make the U.S. safer. In January President Donald Trump called for a […]
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