President Donald Trump signed an executive order to initiate the construction of the "Iron Dome" missile defense system in the United States. This new missile defense system is expected to resemble ...

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

Given the threats and opportunities created by revolutionary advances in technology and a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape, the U.S. has no alternative but to embrace what is rapidly ...

The “Brilliant Pebbles” system envisaged thousands ... in the continental United States, allowing enemies to coerce America into staying out of a distant war. In any case, Mr Trump’s ...

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

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

This architecture will encompass various components, including accelerating the deployment of hypersonic and ballistic tracking space se ...

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

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

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced he was launching a Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as “Star Wars,” with ... spending later, the United States has not come close ...