Editing Strategic Defense Initiative (section)

== Post-Soviet ==
In 2014, a declassified [[CIA]] paper stated that "In response to SDI, Moscow threatened a variety of military countermeasures in lieu of developing a parallel missile defense system".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/why-missile-defense-terrified-the-soviets-2014-10?IR=T|title=A Newly Declassified CIA Paper Details A Tense Subplot in the Cold War Arms Race|website=[[Business Insider]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0006122438.pdf|title=Moscow's Response to US Plans for Missile Defense|date=January 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119110741/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0006122438.pdf|archive-date=January 19, 2017}}</ref>

In January 2025 President Donald Trump ordered the building of a national "Iron Dome" missile defense shield. <ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-27 |title=Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Directs the Building of the Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield for America |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-directs-the-building-of-the-iron-dome-missile-defense-shield-for-america/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=The White House |language=en-US}}</ref>