Proposed U.S. space defenses against hypersonic nuclear missiles are unnecessary, impractical and would trigger a dangerous ...

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 ...

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

A 21st-century Brilliant Pebbles system would protect the U.S. homeland ... It would make missile defense cost-effective, inverting the current, pricey dynamic that favors our enemies’ less ...

“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 ...

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 ...

OPINION: President Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order to build an “Iron Dome” for America is a welcome call for an effective missile defense ... in the Brilliant Pebbles space-based interceptor ...