“Please note the Department of Defense has renamed this program from “Iron Dome for America” to “Golden Dome for America,” a ...

Does the U.S. need advanced missile defense? President Trump's announcement to pursue it follows a long history.

President Trump, in a joint session of the US Congress, proposed developing a missile defense system similar to Israel's ...

During President Trump’s address to Congress the other day, he unveiled an ambitious proposal to develop a “Golden Dome” ...

While inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome air-defense system, the American version is designed to operate on a much larger scale, protecting the entire U.S. territory from advanced missile threats.

The U.S. already has a variety of lower-scale air defense systems — the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system serves as the primary missile defense system against intercontinental ballistic ...

Continental defenses that can provide perfect—or even near-perfect—protection for the US homeland are not feasible. New ...

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the US Department of Defense to build an “Iron Dome for America,” which is short hand for a next-generation missile defense shield for ...

Trump's 'Golden Dome for America' missile defense initiative replaces 'Iron Dome,' aiming for a multi-layered shield against ...

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets launched from Gaza on Oct. 11, 2023. (Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images) In a bit of verbal alchemy, the Pentagon is turning iron into gold.

But the Golden Dome project will not come to fruition without novel technologies—for which development might not be easy.