Brilliant Pebbles was a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system proposed by Lowell Wood and Edward Teller of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...

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...

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...

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...

potential part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, there codenamed Brilliant Pebbles. Project Thor was an idea for a weapons system that launches telephone...

for another U.S. Army space-based missile defense program known as Brilliant Pebbles. Although no Starbird missiles were ever launched from Wake Island...

space-based interceptors for the Strategic Defense Initiative and Brilliant Pebbles in the 1980s. However these programs dissolved in the 1990s due to...

the movie, by its detractors. Some concepts of the system included Brilliant Pebbles, which were Kinetic Kill Vehicles, essentially small rockets launched...

Concept for the Strategic Defense Initiative Brilliant Pebbles space-based interceptor...

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...

Music Network, 1998) (song: "Brilliant Pebbles") An Anthology: The Boxset (Album by Simon Care, 2002) (song: "Brilliant Pebbles" with Simon Care) BBC Radio...

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...

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...

Dr. Scott was head of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories "Brilliant Pebbles" and "Brilliant Eyes" projects which were part of the Strategic Defense Initiative...

updated version of Smart Rocks. The new ballistic missile defense Brilliant Pebbles would eventually become the chief weapons system of the Strategic...

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...

extended four-stage development. The initial stage would consist of the Brilliant Pebbles defense system, a satellite constellation of 4,600 kinetic interceptors...

fueled missiles, would require many more orbital launchers. The old Brilliant Pebbles project—although it did not apply to the boost phase—estimated the...

Strategic Defense Initiative Brilliant Pebbles were intended to intercept a ballistic missile in space...

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...

Defense Initiative (especially regarding the X-ray laser, but also "Brilliant Pebbles") Great Oil Sniffer Hoax Superstitions and pseudoscience Mars effect...

Missiles", offering recommendations for advancing the recently cancelled Brilliant Pebbles program. There he advocated for a new proliferated low Earth orbit...

and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency to replace Milstar. The Brilliant Pebbles space-based anti-missile interceptor was transferred to the Space...

efforts at LLNL for space-based missile defense intercept technology (“Brilliant Pebbles” program). He led the development of critical technologies for integrated...

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...

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...

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...

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...

targets. Elements from the Strategic Defense Initiative, such as Brilliant Pebbles and Brilliant Eyes promised a more aggressive military role for space. Space...

early 1990s, Nozette, as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative's 'Brilliant Pebbles', conceived the idea (and then led the mission) of the Clementine...