President Trump’s ambitious Golden Dome missile defense program revives Reagan’s space-age Star Wars vision, but with new tech, bigger costs, and the same controversy.

From 1985: The status of Reagan's 'Star Wars' program. The nation's top scientists gathered in 1985 to consider President Reagan's SDI proposal: How a space-based defense system could protect the ...

The U.S. faces dangerous adversaries but has the tools to create a strong missile-defense system.

For an estimated $200,000-300,000, this screen-worn Stormtrooper helmet—recently exhibited at the Reagan Presidential Library—could be yours. And so could questions about representation of Empire!

A similar critique — that millions of people will die even if one nuclear-armed missile evades “Star Wars” — was prevalent in the 1980s. The SDI program indeed disbanded in 1993, but not before it ...

Forty-three years ago, President Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative. That was a space-based missile defense system intended to protect America from nuclear attack. People mocked the ...

Trump is correct that missile defense technology has greatly advanced in the three decades since Reagan’s Star Wars concept was jettisoned. “We can hit a bullet with a bullet,” says Tom ...

Trump's Golden Dome concept repeats the idiocy of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars"), spending massive amounts of tax dollars for a concept that won't work. See www.youtube.com ...

From 1985: The status of Reagan's 'Star Wars' program. The nation's top scientists gathered in 1985 to consider President Reagan's SDI proposal: How a space-based defense system could protect the ...