Homeland defense has entered a new era with the proliferation of nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles and ...

On May 20, President Donald Trump launched the Golden Dome missile defense initiative. I was in college when President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative—initially mocked by ...

The President announced plans to develop a space-based missile-defense system—but concerns abound, including over costs.

Reagan’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed "Star Wars," faced similar promises—and skepticism. President Trump’s new missile defense vision, dubbed "Golden Dome," is already ...

It was part of the Star Wars initiative devised during Reagan’s presidency. But it represents a huge and expensive technological leap from current capabilities. Reagan’s “Strategic Defense ...

President Donald Trump upped the price tag for Canada to be protected by his highly anticipated Golden Dome missile defense project as the two countries simultaneously negotiate ...

Reagan's proposed missile shield, formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative, became a target of lawmakers in the mid-1980s. Sen. Edward Kennedy criticized it as ''reckless 'Star Wars ...

China said it is “gravely concerned” about President Donald Trump‘s ambitious Golden Dome project, and warned that it could upset the global strategic balance. On Tuesday, Trump announced th ...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday his administration's preferred concept for the Golden Dome missile defense program — a sprawling $175 billion initiative that would mark the first time the ...

Two memorable stories illustrate Garwin’s gift for explanation, both from the 1980s during the era of the Strategic Defense Initiative, also called the “Star Wars” program by its critics. Back then, ...