{"id":23007,"date":"2026-09-03T23:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23007"},"modified":"2026-09-03T23:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:17:50","slug":"golden-dome-the-us-is-building-a-missile-shield-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23007","title":{"rendered":"Golden Dome: The US Is Building a Missile Shield in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Golden Dome is a ridiculous project that would require the US converging&nbsp;the entire world in low-orbit satellites&nbsp;filled with missiles, meaning the US would be holding a loaded gun over every country on Earth that would potentially counter a country&#8217;s second strike capability, giving them the incentive to strike first with numbers that would overwhelm the golden dome. It&#8217;s not a realistic solution in the first place, if built it likely&nbsp;wouldn&#8217;t work as it&#8217;d have to hit every launched missile or missile site before a successful nuke hit the US where even a few nukes hitting the US is devastating, and if everything worked super well, global tensions would rise as the US would be pointing low-orbit missiles at every country on Earth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Golden Dome: The US Is Building a Missile Shield in Space\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y2e7_hnxhX0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Dome is a ridiculous project that would require the US converging the entire world in low-orbit satellites filled with missiles, meaning the US would be holding a loaded gun over every country on Earth that would potentially counter a country&#8217;s second strike capability, giving them the incentive to strike first with numbers that would overwhelm the golden dome. It&#8217;s not a realistic solution in the first place, if built it likely wouldn&#8217;t work as it&#8217;d have to hit every launched missile or missile site before a successful nuke hit the US where even a few nukes hitting the US is devastating, and if everything worked super well, global tensions would rise as the US would be pointing low-orbit missiles at every country on Earth. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y2e7_hnxhX0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,338,1569,994,273,170,619,1055],"class_list":["post-23007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-missiles","tag-nuclear-war","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-nukes","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23008,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions\/23008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}