I N THE LATE 1980s Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, proposed a seemingly ...

Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff explains why the executive order to create a space-based defense shield would ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to initiate the construction of the "Iron Dome" missile defense system in ...

Trump's push follows in the footsteps of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a scrapped program popularly called "Star ...

The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...

Trump's 'Iron Dome for America' aims to counter modern missile threats with next-gen interceptors, enhancing US defense and ...

Like Reagan’s never-fulfilled plan for a system to “intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached ...

BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY.” Since taking office, Trump has moved to make good on ...

“I will direct our military to begin construction of the great Iron Dome missile defence shield, which will be made all in ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...