I N THE LATE 1980s Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, proposed a seemingly ...

The thought of an American Iron Dome to protect it from missile attacks has led Russia to launch a fusillade of fulminations ...

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

The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

Like Reagan’s never-fulfilled plan for a system to “intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached ...

The US has an opportunity and a responsibility to devise an effective missile shield to defend itself and its allies.