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

I N THE LATE 1980s Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, proposed a seemingly ...

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

The name is a sly clue indicating his multi-faceted goal of deploying a "state of the art" missile defense covering the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii.

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

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

For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.