A longstanding Sinophobia in the U.S. goes back to the 19th century, with the Chinese Exclusion Act, the tax on Chinese miners during the Gold Rush, and ...

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

On Tuesday morning, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest it has ever been to midnight in the 78 years since it started running. So what has set off the historic ...

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

AI optimists will tell you that disruptive technology and innovations usually create more jobs than they destroy as new uses ...

The Trump administration's Iron Dome for America executive order is causing political ripples, but with the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) soliciting industry input on the concept, how would such a ...

Reagan called on the scientific community that created nuclear weapons to develop the capability to make them obsolete and end the principle of mutually assured destruction. Critics of the ...

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

During the Cold War (1948-1991) with the Soviet Union, we addressed that threat with our doctrine of "Mutual Assured Destruction ... Treaty and the Strategic Arms Reductions Talks.

A week into office, United States President Donald Trump surprised the world and many of his policymakers by announcing his ...