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

What's more, missile defense systems create other problems including potential overconfidence in the defense and incentive for adversaries to build more nuclear weapons. Known as the “Ground-based ...

Protecting the U.S. would require novel solutions, like orbiting missile interceptors that can destroy incoming attacks.

Time for Change America's outdated nuclear deterrence policy is hindering the country's missile defense program, constraining ...

GMD targets incoming missiles when they are in mid-flight. In theory it is easier to take out a missile in its “boost phase” (as it is taking off), when it is moving more slowly. The problem ...

Two Republican senators introduced legislation this week that would establish more detailed plans for President Donald ...

The US put its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) missile shield to the test in May, firing an intercontinental ballistic missile from the Marshall Islands and knocking it out of the sky with a ...

A bill introduced by Republican lawmakers this week would bring back JLENS tethered aerostats. Trials of the aerostats were canceled after one broke free in 2015 and caused power outages across ...