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.

Time for Change America's outdated nuclear deterrence policy is hindering the country's missile defense program, constraining ...

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

President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025, Executive Order to build an Iron Dome for America is a welcome call for an ...

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

Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader most responsible for bringing the Cold War to a non-nuclear conclusion. Reality: In the 1970s, as presidential scholar Kiron Skinner has written, Reagan formulated ...

If both superpowers were to avoid the growing risk of accidental war, they had to make deep cuts in their strategic forces. "This was an imperative of the nuclear age." Reagan's commitment to SDI ...

He negotiated one of the most successful nuclear-reduction treaties during the Cold War. Reagan attacked Jimmy Carter for undermining allies in the name of human rights, but he also jettisoned ...

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

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 ...