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

The Trump executive order notes that developing a missile defense system is part of a strategy of “peace through strength.” ...

President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that the U.S. would pursue an Iron Dome-like national missile defense system has taken a page from Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative of decades ago.

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

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

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

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 ...

The US has an opportunity and a responsibility to devise an effective missile shield to defend itself and its allies.

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