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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The SDI, also came to be called Star Wars, was announced in 1983 to develop a space-based defense system to protect the U.S. from nuclear missiles. Risk of arms race ...

Major U.S. defense programs are subject to a thorough review process. Some SDI proponents raised hackles by seeking to bypass it. Since 2004, the U.S. has deployed in Alaska and California a few ...