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Theodore “Ted” Carrigan-Broda | CofC ’17 | UMass Chan MSTP ’27
Winner of 0.2 Nobel Prizes (when rounded to the nearest integer), medicinal chemist-in-training, photographer, commodore of a fake yacht club, occasional outdoorsman, and budget traveler
As a silver lining, Lockheed Martin shareholders will doubtlessly enrich themselves of the taxpayer teat, so if you already own stock, then kudos to you
May 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This seems like a recapitulation of the historic "Star Wars" program debacle (which was estimated to cost $170B in 1988 dollars):
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
May 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The United States already has numerous advanced missile defense systems with redundant safeguards:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

The scale of this unjustified spending is absolutely staggering.
May 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The "Golden Dome" system is slated to cost $175B. Given routine defense cost overruns, this is a charitable assumption.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

That's more than the annual (FY24) budget for all but five federal departments.
fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-fin...
May 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM