What happens when the United States tries to build a missile shield so ambitious that Russia and China start dreaming up weapons that no defense can stop?

The much-ballyhooed “Golden Dome” missile defense project may be necessary for America’s national security—but the technology to operate it simply has not been created yet.

President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed Star Wars, promised to create a missile defense system so effective it would eliminate the threat of nuclear war forever, at a cost of ...

One thing that’s evident about President Donald Trump’s proposal for the Golden Dome missile defense shield is that designing, deploying, and sustaining it will cost a lot of money, at least several ...

WASHINGTON — A report published last month by defense analyst Todd Harrison estimating the potential costs of the Golden Dome missile defense system landed like a fiscal bombshell. President Trump in ...

Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, Peter Thiel speaks at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images) President Trump trumpets his proposed ...

The four-star general in charge of developing Golden Dome, Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, defended the military’s ...

Shortly after beginning his second term, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop a homeland air and missile defense system. The order called for ...

US Golden Dome Moves Forward As Questions Mount Over Feasibility. This month, Air & Space Forces Magazine reported that at ...

President Donald Trump’s goal of a Golden Dome for America to protect against a broad range of threats to the homeland is likely to cost far more than originally advertised, with no architecture ...

The U.S. Space Force has officially launched the competitive phase of its ambitious “Golden Dome” missile defense initiative, ...