Beam Me Up!

First the military builds a force field for its combat vehicles, and now a cloaking device?

The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, two mathematicians have claimed.
They have outlined their concept in a research paper published in one of the UK Royal Society's scientific journals.
Nicolae Nicorovici and Graeme Milton propose that placing certain objects close to a material called a superlens could make them appear to vanish.

OK, call me crazy, but I always thought that Sci-fi might offer the answers to the problem of shooting down ballistic missiles. With a missile you are almost asking for the impossible, basically a bullet trying to hit another bullet. How about force fields over cities and lasers to shoot them down (the latter of which may be closer than you think).