Israel’s missile defense system is effective in close quarters. That model won’t help the U.S.

The system Reagan proposed looked at a host of different technologies — lasers, directed energy beams, small missiles parked in low earth orbit (Brilliant Pebbles). Tens of billions were ...

The “Brilliant Pebbles” system envisaged thousands of small satellites in low-Earth orbit, each housing heat-seeking missiles to take out incoming Soviet nukes long before they released their ...

“Each Iron Dome system can defend an area of ... under President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, with the proposal of Brilliant Pebbles, which envisioned a network of small ...

Today we bring you a similar topic, one where the future evokes the past as we explore the Trump administration's first meaningful action on defense ... as not as Brilliant Pebbles, but as Smart ...