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

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

In a Pentagon town hall, new defense secretary set out an agenda for longer-term plans, faster deployment of tech, and staff ...

Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff explains why the executive order to create a space-based defense shield would ...

Time for Change America's outdated nuclear deterrence policy is hindering the country's missile defense program, constraining ...

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

For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.

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.

President Trump signed an executive order to develop a next-generation missile defense system, which the White House has referred to as an "Iron Dome for America." The initiative, modeled after Israel ...

Such defense systems are extremely costly” with “their effectiveness often being questionable,” one expert said.

An executive order signed by the president this week essentially revives Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative ... Critics of the ambitious defense program derisively called it "Star Wars ...