Aiming for bipartisan support and cultivating international allies could help Trump advance the new high-tech shield.

The U.S. faces dangerous adversaries but has the tools to create a strong missile-defense system.

It was scuttled because of politics, not technological know-how or cost.

Golden Dome, like the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative and the Israeli missile defense system, will be a multi-layered system that will cover boost phase, mid-range and then terminal phase.

Golden Dome, like the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative and the Israeli missile defense system, will be a multi-layered system that will cover boost phase, mid-range and then terminal phase.

Will the Golden Dome missile defense system proposed by President Donald Trump protect the US from missile strikes?

Like a Hollywood revenant, Golden Dome rose from the ashes of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative — nicknamed "Star Wars" — that died a long death to a string of arguments over tech ...