It was scuttled because of politics, not technological know-how or cost.

President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from China, which has framed ...

Aside from the U.S. Air Force’s anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test in 1985 and the abandoned Star Wars program, treaties like the Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963), the Outer Space Treaty (1967), and ...

NATO's 5% GDP defense target by 2035 sparks global spending shifts. Discover how rising threats boost demand for high-tech ...

But the idea of a space-based missile defense system has its roots in the Strategic Defense Initiative, proposed over 40 years ago by then-President Ronald Reagan.

In meetings with Gorbachev, the Russians wanted Reagan to give up the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, but Reagan bluntly refused and told the Russians that the American economy was ...

On May 20, President Donald Trump launched the Golden Dome missile defense initiative. I was in college when President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative—initially mocked by ...

On May 20, President Donald Trump launched the Golden Dome missile defense initiative. I was in college when President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative—initially mocked by ...

In his March address to a joint session of Congress, Mr. Trump invoked Ronald Reagan ’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative, asserting that the U.S. now has the technology to do what Reagan could ...

The ‘Star Wars’ era: Ronald Reagan hoped his planned missile defence system would force the USSR to the negotiating table. He was right. Yuryi Abramochkin/RIA Novosti archive., CC BY ...