President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

The problems, both then and now, were that a comprehensive missile shield would be exorbitant in price, barely technically ...

Creating an Iron Dome for America would not just be a poor decision — it would be a monumental failure in defense policy.

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

The Iron Dome operates with a tri-layered defense strategy, ranging from the immediate Iron Dome to the high-altitude Arrow systems.

While the Iron Dome combats incoming rockets and artillery weapons, David’s Sling protects against short- and medium-range threats, and the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems stop ballistic missiles.

Trump’s order does not give any estimate of the costs of such a system, but several hundreds of billions of dollars would ...