Inside every week of his inauguration, President Trump issued an government order to develop “The Iron Dome for America” (rebranded the “Golden Dome” a month later.) The eruption of a revived battle between Israel and Iran in June has solely strengthened the case for an American model of the Iron Dome within the eyes of the administration.
Trump has typically expressed admiration for Israel’s Iron Dome, an air protection system that may intercept short-range rockets and artillery over the small nation and that’s funded partly by the US.
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Within the AI arms race, all the foremost gamers say they need to go nuclear.
Over the previous yr, the likes of Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have despatched out a flurry of bulletins associated to nuclear vitality. Some are about agreements to buy energy from current vegetation, whereas others are about investments trying to enhance unproven superior applied sciences.