Canadian Pugwash Group statements:
- CPG: Canada Must Say No to ‘Golden Dome’ Strategic Missile Defence — A Call for Parliamentary OversightSeptember 18, 2025
- CPG Statement: Flawed in Principle and Practice — Why Canada Must Say No to ‘Golden Dome’
- Open Letter to Prime Minister Carney: Canada Must Say No to ‘Golden Dome’ June 11, 2025
The Iron Dome for America, issued by President Trump, January 27, 2025. Trump stated the project would be completed within three years and cost approximately $175 billion. General Michael A. Guetlein of the U.S. Space Force has been appointed to lead the initiative. Around $25 billion is expected to come from proposed federal spending cuts and tax reforms. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that it could cost between $161 billion and $542 billion over 20 years.
Outer Space Treaty Article IV
States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.
States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.
Strategic Ballistic Missile Defense: Challenges to defending the U.S.
A Report by the American Physical Society Panel on Public Affairs; Frederick K Lamb (Chair), Laura Grego (Co-Chair), James D. Wells (Co-Chair) (and 7 others). March 3, 2025 https://www.aps.org/
A Report by the American Physical Society Panel on Public Affairs; Frederick K Lamb (Chair), Laura Grego (Co-Chair), James D. Wells (Co-Chair) (and 7 others). March 3, 2025 https://www.aps.org/
Denuclearization and the Golden Dome, The Simons Foundation Canada Briefing report by Ernie Regehr O.C. March 25, 2025
Canada should firmly reject Trump’s ludicrous Golden Dome plan, May 22, 2025 Globe and Mail by Lloyd Axworthy
Carney should reject Trump’s Star Wars production by Douglas Roche | May 24, 2025 The Hill Times
Canada’s possible participation in the Americans’ Golden Dome would overturn decades of resistance to southern neighbour’s often extraordinary missile plans.
Canada’s possible participation in the Americans’ Golden Dome would overturn decades of resistance to southern neighbour’s often extraordinary missile plans.
Canada and the Golden Dome: Can We Still Thread the Missile Defence Needle? Peter Jones May 25, 2025
Trump’s Golden Dome – Canada should steer well clear of this American boondoggle
Strategic ballistic missile defence has not worked and there is no indication that it ever will. Paul Meyer 28 May, 2025 Open Canada
Strategic ballistic missile defence has not worked and there is no indication that it ever will. Paul Meyer 28 May, 2025 Open Canada
Dome of Delusion: The Many Costs of Ballistic Missile Defense
Arms Control Today, June 2025, Igor Moric, is a physicist at the Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security
Arms Control Today, June 2025, Igor Moric, is a physicist at the Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security
Canada Shouldn’t Buy into the Mirage of “Golden Dome, Centre for International Policy Studies, June 25, 2025, by Paul Meyer
Flawed in principle and practice: why Canada must say no to Trump’s ‘Golden Dome”
by Cesar Jaramillo, June 28, 2025 In the Hill Times
Trump’s Golden Dome Missile Defense & Nuclear Escalation
Theodore Postol, Prof. Emeritus in Science, Technology and International Security at MIT
Why Canada should oppose Trump’s Golden Dome proposal
by Erika Simpson, The Hill Times, Jan. 7, 2026