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

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

The Trump administration's Iron Dome for America executive order is causing ... Nations have long sought ways to protect against attack and invasion, whether that meant fortresses, shore batteries ...

An American Iron Dome simply would cost too much money. If a U.S. adversary were to launch missiles against the United States, Montgomery figured, that adversary might fire 500 to 600 missiles. To ...

thereby raising the threshold for attack and contributing to deterrence.” The Iron Dome plan resembles former President Ronald Reagon's proposed dual objective of Strategic Defense Initiative ...

from a rocket attack emanating from Mexico, but not much else. “Each Iron Dome system can defend an area of roughly 150 square miles. We would need to deploy more than 24,700 Iron Dome batteries ...

It also hosts Andersen Air Force Base – a key deployment base for US Air Force bombers such as the B-1 and B-52 and sometimes the stealthy B-2 – and is homeport to US nuclear attack submarines ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order, titled "The Iron Dome for America," calls for ... Houthi militants in Yemen or those Iran used to attack Israel in 2024. Although Israel’s three ...

The aim of the "Iron Dome for America" program is to shield the US from attack while preserving its second-strike capability, where the US preserves enough nuclear force after an attack to deter ...