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 ...

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

Despite varying reports on stockpiles, Russia and the U.S. have far more nuclear weapons than the rest of the world, accounting for 90% of the world’s stockpile. The country with the third-most ...

Missile defense was contentious also in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan offered a vision to render nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete.” Golden Dome proponents might avoid some of ...

(Delivered February 6, 2006) I have been asked to speak about President Ronald Reagan's efforts to eliminate the possibility of nuclear war. That topic is long overdue for serious study.

With the Earth-encircling anti-missile dome, President Trump could be aiming for a redux of President Reagan’s simultaneous pursuit of his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) missile shield and ...

Wednesday marks the 33rd anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s historic “Star Wars” speech, in which he introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to the American people. The intent was to ...

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 ...

How Reagan’s fantasy about—and Mikhail Gorbachev’s fear of—space weapons ruined a plan to eliminate the entire U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals.

Many analysts opposed SDI because it would potentially escalate the arms race; in 1986, 6,500 scientists pledged their opposition to SDI in part because they doubted it would work at all.

The White House’s $175-billion plan to protect the U.S. from nuclear annihilation will probably cost much more—and deliver far less—than has been claimed, says nuclear arms expert Jeffrey Lewis ...