Russia, North Korea, and China this week called President Trump’s plan to build a “golden dome” missile shield to protect America “dangerous” and “destabilizing.”

It’s an ambitious project, and the goal of having the missile shield go operational before the end of his term in January 2029 is even more so.

Plus, the President has teased the possibility of expanding Golden Dome to protect Canada as well — if, of course, the Canadians accept his proposal to become our 51st state.

For reasons that defy rational thought, the arms controllers and most leftists believe missile defense is anathema.

During the Cold War, they argued that unless the United States and the Soviet Union were guaranteed to utterly destroy each other if they used nuclear weapons — a doctrine known as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD — there could be no strategic stability.

As I describe in my latest book, The Iran House, the 2006 Israeli war with Hezbollah showed the absurdity of the MAD doctrine. Israel at the time had no missile defenses, and sent its citizens (and visiting journalists) scurrying into air raid shelters each time they detected a Hezbollah missile launch.

The Iranian-backed group fired off 4,400 missiles and rockets at Israel that summer, and only the grace of God prevented widespread casualties.

In the current war that Hamas launched on October 7, 2023, Hamas and its allies have launched tens of thousands of rockets into the Jewish state, to great psychological and economic effect but thankfully causing few human casualties, because of Israel’s now-robust missile defense systems.

The Israelis have developed layered defenses, with Arrow 3 dedicated to intercepting long-range ballistic missiles fired by Iran or the Houthis in Yemen, and David’s Sling, which catches short to medium range missiles. Iron Dome, the best-known Israeli missile defense system, is used to intercept the short-range rockets used by Hamas and Hezbollah.

Presumably, President Trump’s “Golden Dome” network would not need to worry about short range missiles, only ICBM’s or missiles that could be fired from containerized launchers placed on commercial cargo ships off our shores.

I can remember when touring Strategic Defense Initiative facilities in 1986 (and meeting Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, at Lawrence Livermore National Nuclear Laboratory), being shown the revolutionary supercomputer that was making SDI possible.

Advances in technology at the time allowed that supercomputer to be carried around in a briefcase. Today, you could probably get that much computing power into something the size of a thick credit card.

Quantum computing plus Israel’s pioneering efforts in developing missile defense make me optimistic that Golden Dome could indeed become a reality.

Just this past week, Israel lifted the veil on a series of new laser-based missile interceptors, releasing video for the first time of a fixed laser system intercepting a drone. Called “Iron Beam,” this system has apparently been operational for several months already.

Iron Beam is part of a more extensive “Magen Or” network of lasers, known in English as Light Shield. When those systems become fully operational, they will dramatically decrease the cost of defending against cheap rockets and missiles, while expanding the ability of the IDF to protect Israel’s civilian population.

One Iron Dome interceptor costs around $55,000, and sometimes the Israelis launch two or three against a single incoming target. By comparison, a shot from Iron Beam or Light Shield will cost a few dollars — basically, the price of the electric charge.

With the massive expansion of drone warfare we have seen — not just from Iran, but in Ukraine — such systems could be a game-changer.

I discuss this as well as the deadlock in the US-Iran nuclear negotiations, and the prospects for peace in Ukraine, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.5 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. You can listen to the podcast later here.

Yours in freedom,

©2025 All rights reserved.

RELATED VIDEO: The Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield