Aiming for bipartisan support and cultivating international allies could help Trump advance the new high-tech shield.

EXCLUSIVE: An expert in EMPs revealed that while U.S. President Donald Trump's planned Golden Dome bears some similarities to a plan put forth by former president Ronald Reagan ...

Reports on exact numbers of nuclear weapons by country vary, but one usually comes out on top. Here are the nine countries that have access to them.

Trump's Golden Dome missile defense aims to fulfill Reagan's SDI vision with space-based interceptors, leveraging reduced launch costs and advanced technology.

Better known by the mocking nickname “Star Wars,” SDI sought to neutralize the threat from the Soviet Union’s nuclear-warhead-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles by using space-based ...

Cultivate allies Many U.S. allies worried that SDI was infeasible or might be destabilizing. But they also saw it as helping to bring the Soviets to the nuclear negotiating table.

SDI cost more than one trillion dollars and produced nothing, but whose greatest expense was the opportunity cost; Soviet President Gorbachev offered to eliminate all nuclear weapons if Reagan ...

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.

Analysts say the American Iron Dome will deter nuclear threats from China and Russia but may lead to an arms race.

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

Cultivate allies Many U.S. allies worried that SDI was infeasible or might be destabilizing. But they also saw it as helping to bring the Soviets to the nuclear negotiating table.