The Defense Department will soon brief the president on possible options for a planned missile defense system that could cost ...

A U.S. high-tech anti-ballistic missile defense system proposed during the Reagan administration in the 1980s. Also called "Star Wars." THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

The idea was first proposed during the Cold War, particularly under the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, initiated in the 1980s. However, due to high costs ...

WASHINGTON--James A. Ionson’s four-year tenure as director of SDI’s Innovative Science and Technology (IST) program was punctuated by controversy over the idea of a strategic defense and the role of ...

Trump has taken inspiration from two places: former President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, and Israel’s “Iron Dome.” Reagan’s vision was to protect the whole of the U.S ...

We also see in the Golden Dome an echo of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) announced by President Reagan on 23 March 1983. The heart of the SDI was a plan to develop a space-based missile ...

but the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as "Star Wars," ultimately did not come to fruition because of technology and cost challenges.

More than 500 British scientists, including 22 Fellows of the Royal Society, have pledged to refuse any funding arising from the American Strategic Defense Initiative program. In addition, a major ...

All of these threat trends have implications for U.S. strategic forces capabilities – space defenses, nuclear force structure, air and missile defenses, including the recently announced Golden Dome ...

This enhanced focus will also explore vertical applications of the technology, pursuing both new intellectual property (IP) rights and the strategic use of licensed IP rights. Defense & Security ...