Missile defense systems are nothing new. History shows that even if they work as advertised – a big if – they’re a bad idea if your aim is to make your country safer from nuclear attack.
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President Trump has set aggressive goals for Golden Dome, but many parts of the system already exist.
Apartheid South Africa started a war in which it could not maintain a strategic advantage. It misread the quest for national liberation and international opinion that undermined its effectiveness.
North Korea does not yet have the capacity to launch a nuclear missile from a submarine. Its recent test, however, suggests it is making progress to a game-changing second-strike capability.
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Professor, University of South Africa
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Lecturer, Public Safety, University of Tasmania
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Director of the Center for National Security Initiatives and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security and Foreign Policy, Harvard Kennedy School