Strategic Defense Initiative News

Among the questions raised by President-elect Barack Obama's victory, one has been largely overlooked by his critics and supporters: What fate awaits the international missile defense system Washington has been ...

As America's strategic dialogue with Russia shifts into reverse over our planned missile defense in Eastern Europe, President-elect Barack Obama has an opportunity to curtail this foolish turn of events, but ...

Just hours after Barack Obama won a landslide victory in the U.S. presidential election on November 4, the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, stated before more than a thousand Russian officials, including ...

With a new administration coming into office, the United States' defense budget will once again be a topic of hot debate.

The Boeing Co.'s work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense missile program is helping fuel the state's economy.

Working in secret, Israel and Germany have jointly developed a nuclear missile detection system, according to the Defense News Web site.

A spy at the heart of Nato may have passed secrets on the US missile shield and cyber-defence to Russian Intelligence, it has emerged.

WASHINGTON: Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko wants to host Russian missiles to counter US plans for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe, according to an interview published on Friday that drew ...

Washington - This fall, the British government released transcripts of Cold War era tapes it planned to broadcast if the nation came under attack.

Missile-defense skeptics yearning for a fresh look at the wisdom of pumping $10 billion annually into missile defense aren't going to get it from Barack Obama when he moves into the Oval Office.

The first Space Based Infrared System Highly Elliptical Orbit payload and ground system, built by a Lockheed Martin team, has been accepted for operations by the U.S Air Force.

The U.S. Ground Based Interceptor missile shield may have raised some old, Cold War hackles, but the system is no threat to the Russians -- and they know it, according to a spokesman for the Missile Defense ...

MINSK, Belarus : Officials in Belarus are refusing to comment on the latest suggestion that Russian Iskander missiles could be deployed in the ex-Soviet republic bordering Poland.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's move to the White House is a chance for a fresh start between the two powerful, nuclear-armed nations, whose ties have ...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip discussed Russian behavior and new cooperation on cyber security during meetings here today.

The Czech Republic and Poland hope that the project of the U.S. anti-missile defense in Central Europe will continue after President George W. Bush ends his term, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told ...

The United States says the reported test of a new Iranian ballistic missile underscores that country's threat to the Middle East and Europe, including Russia, which has opposed a planned U.S. regional missile ...

President Alexander Lukashenko is in talks with Moscow about placing in Belarus advanced Iskander missiles that could hit targets deep inside Europe.

As the European Union prepares to restart talks on cooperation with Russia, the United States is warning that the move could undermine Western attempts to rein in the Kremlin's aggressive foreign policy.

The EU diplomacy with Moscow comes as U.S.-Russian tensions have flared. It follows a threat by Russia this month to install new short-range missiles close to EU borders in response to nearby U.S. missile defense plans. Russia also has rejected a new U.S. cooperation offer on missile defense.

The Russians want him to hold off installation of a missile defense shield in Poland.