Brilliant Pebbles was a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system proposed by Lowell Wood and Edward Teller of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
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Strategic Defense Initiative (redirect from Brilliant Eyes)
budget was cut. By the late 1980s, the effort had re-focused on the "Brilliant Pebbles" concept using small orbiting missiles, such as a lower cost conventional...
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Approved for acquisition by the Pentagon during 1991 but never realized, Brilliant Pebbles was a proposed space-based anti-ballistic system that was meant to...
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Project Excalibur (section Brilliant Pebbles begins)
dead, in 1987 Teller and Wood began pitching Wood's new concept, Brilliant Pebbles. They first presented this to Abrahamson in October and followed up...
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potential part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, there codenamed Brilliant Pebbles. Project Thor was an idea for a weapons system that launches telephone...
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for another U.S. Army space-based missile defense program known as Brilliant Pebbles. Although no Starbird missiles were ever launched from Wake Island...
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space-based interceptors for the Strategic Defense Initiative and Brilliant Pebbles in the 1980s. However these programs dissolved in the 1990s due to...
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the movie, by its detractors. Some concepts of the system included Brilliant Pebbles, which were Kinetic Kill Vehicles, essentially small rockets launched...
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Concept for the Strategic Defense Initiative Brilliant Pebbles space-based interceptor...
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mid-1980s as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, culminating in Brilliant Pebbles, where weapons were to be staged in low orbits to intercept ballistic...
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Music Network, 1998) (song: "Brilliant Pebbles") An Anthology: The Boxset (Album by Simon Care, 2002) (song: "Brilliant Pebbles" with Simon Care) BBC Radio...
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such as the X-ray lasers envisioned by Project Excalibur, or the Brilliant Pebbles kinetic-kill satellite system. None of the more exotic systems were...
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hundreds of targets that would have to be dealt with in later stages. Brilliant Pebbles was another boost-phase system that consisted of tens of thousands...
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Dr. Scott was head of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories "Brilliant Pebbles" and "Brilliant Eyes" projects which were part of the Strategic Defense Initiative...
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updated version of Smart Rocks. The new ballistic missile defense Brilliant Pebbles would eventually become the chief weapons system of the Strategic...
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extended four-stage development. The initial stage would consist of the Brilliant Pebbles defense system, a satellite constellation of 4,600 kinetic interceptors...
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Detecting the greenhouse signal (May 1990; JSR-89-330) JASON Review of Brilliant Pebbles, Vol. I, Executive Summary (September 1989; JSR-89-900) Neutrino Detection...
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fueled missiles, would require many more orbital launchers. The old Brilliant Pebbles project—although it did not apply to the boost phase—estimated the...
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Strategic Defense Initiative Brilliant Pebbles were intended to intercept a ballistic missile in space...
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obtaining miniaturization of rocket engines. As part of the Air Force Brilliant Pebbles program, TRW developed a very small 5 lbf (22 N) N2O4/hydrazine thruster...
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Defense Initiative (especially regarding the X-ray laser, but also "Brilliant Pebbles") Great Oil Sniffer Hoax Superstitions and pseudoscience Mars effect...
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Missiles", offering recommendations for advancing the recently cancelled Brilliant Pebbles program. There he advocated for a new proliferated low Earth orbit...
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and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency to replace Milstar. The Brilliant Pebbles space-based anti-missile interceptor was transferred to the Space...
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efforts at LLNL for space-based missile defense intercept technology (“Brilliant Pebbles” program). He led the development of critical technologies for integrated...
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Life" The Watersons 1:58 12. "Byker Hill" The Barely Works 5:06 13. "Brilliant Pebbles" Edward II 4:17 14. "Yellow Dress" The Albion Band 4:45 15. "Red Wing...
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Massatoga" 2:58 5. "The Flying Leather Jackets of Pajarito" 1:23 6. "Wingspan Eclipse the Moon" 5:40 7. "Brilliant Pebbles" 1:29 8. "Nighthunting" 2:17...
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It was first researched for use in space-based electronics for the Brilliant Pebbles project. Dymalloy is prepared from diamond powder of about 25 micrometers...
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visit to the White House to brief President George Bush Sr. on Wood's Brilliant Pebbles concept for the Strategic Defense Initiative. This was a break with...
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targets. Elements from the Strategic Defense Initiative, such as Brilliant Pebbles and Brilliant Eyes promised a more aggressive military role for space. Space...
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early 1990s, Nozette, as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative's 'Brilliant Pebbles', conceived the idea (and then led the mission) of the Clementine...
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