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

The name is a sly clue indicating his multi-faceted goal of deploying a "state of the art" missile defense covering the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii.

A top Russian official warned an advanced U.S. missile defense shield move could lead to military "confrontation" in space.

President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ...

There are significant challenges to overcome if we are to deploy something similar to Israel’s acclaimed air defense network ...

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for an "Iron Dome for America", borrowing the name of Israel's vaunted missile defence system. "We need to immediately begin the ...

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

Israel’s missile defense system is effective in close quarters. That model won’t help the U.S.

When it comes to protecting U.S. territory from missiles fired by such nuclear-powered countries as Russia, China, and North ...

Producing an Iron Dome large enough to cover the continental United States would be a very costly project. U.S. president Donald Trump has followed through on his earlier pledge to develop a homegrown ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the development of an "Iron Dome" defense system to shield the United States from an intercontinental missile attack.