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

The thought of an American Iron Dome to protect it from missile attacks has led Russia to launch a fusillade of fulminations ...

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

Russia today criticised president Donald Trump’s plan to build a “Star Wars”-like missile shield for the US, saying it risked turning space into an arena of “confrontation”. In an ...

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

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