Protecting the U.S. would require novel solutions, like orbiting missile interceptors that can destroy incoming attacks.

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

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

The Ground-Based Midcourse Defence (GMD) system, widely regarded as the backbone of US missile defence, is designed to ...

He's calling the new effort "Iron Dome for America," drawing on a name for an Israeli system that protects the country from rockets and artillery ... defense system. The GMD system, part of ...

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.

The program has been in the works for half a decade now, and it is supposed to give birth to the future Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD ... Rocketdyne-developed rockets will push a three ...