President Donald Trump increased the price tag for Canada to join his Golden Dome missile defense system after meetings at the G7 summit.

Homeland defense has entered a new era with the proliferation of nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles and ...

On May 20, President Donald Trump launched the Golden Dome missile defense initiative. I was in college when President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative—initially mocked by ...

Two memorable stories illustrate Garwin’s gift for explanation, both from the 1980s during the era of the Strategic Defense Initiative, also called the “Star Wars” program by its critics. Back then, ...

But it is also fundamental to the success of the program and recalls back to the culture established by naval reactors with Admiral Rickover as well as Strategic Defense Initiative under ...

In his March address to a joint session of Congress, Mr. Trump invoked Ronald Reagan’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative, asserting that the U.S. now has the technology to do what Reagan could ...

Reagan's proposed missile shield, formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative, became a target of lawmakers in the mid-1980s. Sen. Edward Kennedy criticized it as ''reckless 'Star Wars ...

Golden Dome revives elements of Ronald Reagan’s Cold War-era Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), famously dubbed “Star Wars.” While SDI never materialised due to technological and treaty ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. For Israel, as for Ukraine, defending against drones has been a difficult and ...

Here’s where key cases stand. The “dome” idea harkens back to America’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative – known as “Star Wars” – that aimed to protect the U.S. “from nuclear ...

Jack O'Doherty is affiliated with the NATO Defense College ... such project since President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of the 1980s. The SDI programme – better known ...