When United States President Ronald Reagan and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev met in Geneva in 1985 they agreed “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” It was the ...

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

The seminal 1983 movie Wargames, in which a young boy hacks into the Pentagon to play what he thinks is a game entitled “global thermonuclear war” against an AI, alarmed Ronald Reagan ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...