Indeed, if we had proceeded with Brilliant Pebbles space interceptor development, testing, deployment and operations, we would have an operational system with even more effective technologies today.

In particular, Brilliant Pebbles, a constellation of small space-based interceptors designed to engage attacking ballistic missiles in all phases of their flight trajectory, underwent numerous ...

Today, a year later, the fate of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)-and with it the "Brilliant Pebbles" approach that Wood has proposed-remains an open question, as Congress debates whether the ...