He has now also delayed funding for ground-based interceptor and radar sites in Poland and the Czech Republic for defense against Iranian missile launchers.
Its new missile-defence scheme, when deployed, should be bigger and better than the now-cancelled programme of ground-based interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic.
If operated from a single site (perhaps in Grand Forks, North Dakota) in conjunction with one or more new, ground-based radars and other, existing early-warning radar systems, these weapons would have the ability to provide some protection to most of the continental United States.