I N THE LATE 1980s Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, proposed a seemingly bizarre scheme to defend America against missile attack. The “Brilliant Pebbles” system envisaged thousands of small satellites in low-Earth orbit,

The thought of an American Iron Dome to protect it from missile attacks has led Russia to launch a fusillade of fulminations that equates protecting the USA with harming Russia. An executive order issued by President Donald Trump hearkens to former President Ronald Reagan’s so-called “Star Wars” plan to protect America from incoming missiles.

Like Reagan’s never-fulfilled plan for a system to “intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our soil or that of our allies,” Trump’s vision for “ The Iron Dome for America ” is both sweeping and challenging.

Canada is prepared to join US President Donald Trump's proposed development of an "Iron Dome" missile defense shield, Defense Minister Bill Blair said Thursday.

A proposed $2.5 trillion "Iron Dome for America" is expected to be much more complex than its Israel-based counterpart

Last Friday, the American president's bold project was strongly criticized by Moscow. Building an anti-missile shield comparable to Israel's "Iron Dome", a defense system that protects the territory from missile,