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WASHINGTON — A planned constellation of U.S. space-based missile interceptors could cost tens to hundreds of billions of dollars while remaining vulnerable to relatively inexpensive countermeasures, according to a new study that challenges the economics of one of the most ambitious elements of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defense program.

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