In several recent articles, I have written that Brilliant Pebbles (BP), at least in effect, was the most important Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) concept developed by President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI); was canceled by the Clinton administration for ideological reasons and has been ignored ever since.
If resurrected by President Donald Trump’s Great “Gold Dome Initiative” and supported by Congress, it could rapidly and quite affordably quickly begin deployment in space — especially if Elon Musk helps by applying his well-known technical and business expertise.
My view is contrary to numerous so-called experts who over the years have claimed that developing and building modern space-based interceptor systems would require many years and be excessively expensive. At best, they are uninformed … but I fear they may dominate the current studies of Trump’s Gold Dome Initiative.
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