A national cruise missile defense system to protect the lower 48 states from strategic attack on the homeland below the nuclear threshold from Russia or China could be acquired for $32.7 billion, considerably less than a congressional analysis estimated last year, according to a new study that aims to influence the Pentagon's fiscal year 2024 budget proposal. An 85-page report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies Missile Defense Project, released today, proposes a domestic cruise missile defense architecture...