As discussed in my February 11 Newsmax article, President Trump’s Iron Dome is needed and viable. Needed because of the growing, already dangerous threat to America from ballistic missile attack; and Viable because we knew over three decades ago how to accomplish such protection.

This knowledge, based on limited Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) efforts because the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty constrained us to deploying a single (originally two, but amended to one) ground-based site … and it banned testing, developing and deploying all other basing modes.

And then even that limited research on several important system concepts was blocked or sharply limited in January 1993 by the then-incoming Clinton administration and its congressional allies. Most important, in my view, was scuttling of all space-based defense efforts, particularly for the Brilliant Pebbles system concept employing then-cutting-edge high technology.

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