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.

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

The Trump executive order notes that developing a missile defense system is part of a strategy of “peace through strength.” ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The executive order explicitly notes that the policy aims to achieve what was left unfinished by Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative that critics dubbed Star Wars.