News; Nation/World; New Star Wars plan: Pentagon rushes to counter threats in orbit May 17, 2024 Updated Sat., May 18, 2024 at 11:12 p.m. This picture taken December 26, 2011, shows the Pentagon ...

From Star Wars to Golden Dome: Trump ... formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative, ... it estimated that "over a thousand orbiting weapons would be needed to counter a single North Korean ...

President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that the US would pursue an Iron Dome-like national missile defense system has taken a page from Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative of ...

New Star Wars Plan: Pentagon Rushes to Counter Threats ... space by expanding the range of offensive capabilities — a far cry from the never-built 1980s-era Strategic Defense Initiative ...