Brilliant Pebbles
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Brilliant Pebbles was a United States space-based ballistic missile defense system proposed by Lowell Wood and Edward Teller of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1987, near the end of the Cold
A pebble emerges from its "life jacket" just prior to launch. This is an earlier model before the GPALS upgrades.
Daniel Graham proposed the Smart Rocks concept that ultimately led to Brilliant Pebbles.
James Abrahamson, director of the SDIO, initially dismissed the Smart Rocks concept, but later selected a modified version for the SDI mission.
Bush and Quayle remained vocal supporters of the program as the strategic outlook changed with the ending of the Cold War.
Edward Teller
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Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design insp
Brilliant Pebbles
…Brilliant Pebbles was a United States space-based ballistic missile defense (BMD) system proposed by Lowell Wood and Edward Teller of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1987, near the end of the Cold War. The system would consist of thousands of small satellites, each…
Teller in 1958
Teller in his youth
The Hungarian passport Teller carried when he entered the United States in 1935.
Teller's ID badge photo from Los Alamos