When United States President Ronald Reagan and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev met in Geneva in 1985 they agreed “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” It was the ...

Space-based interceptors and "particle beams" are part of a new multi-billion-dollar Trump order to build a new U.S. missile ...

President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for cuts in atomic weapons arsenals with Russia and other nuclear powers.

The seminal 1983 movie Wargames, in which a young boy hacks into the Pentagon to play what he thinks is a game entitled “global thermonuclear war” against an AI, alarmed Ronald Reagan ...

If both superpowers were to avoid the growing risk of accidental war, they had to make deep cuts in their strategic forces. "This was an imperative of the nuclear age." Reagan's commitment to SDI ...

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

President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025, Executive Order to build an Iron Dome for America is a welcome call for an ...

He negotiated one of the most successful nuclear-reduction treaties during the Cold War. Reagan attacked Jimmy Carter for undermining allies in the name of human rights, but he also jettisoned ...

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

The only way to eliminate the threat of nuclear-armed missiles is to negotiate their elimination—not pretend some magic ...

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 ...