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

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

The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ...

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

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

President Donald Trump wants to destroy missiles with "space-based interceptors," but the idea is unlikely to be realistic, according to The Washington Post. Trump signed an executive order on Monday ...

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.

For decades, the idea of a nationwide missile defense system has captured the imagination of American leaders. During the ...

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

Israel’s missile defense system is effective in close quarters. That model won’t help the U.S.

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 ...

President Donald Trump wants a next-generation missile shield with space-based interceptors ... week essentially revives Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, often referred to as "Star Wars.