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What does BP stand for?

Brilliant Pebbles


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A constellation of small, autonomous, kinetic-energy interceptors, Brilliant Pebbles would detect and destroy ballistic missiles in their boost, postboost, and early midcourse phases of flight.
CAPTION(S): CLASS ACT: Clive Brittain's brilliant Pebbles
The brilliant Pebbles tried and failed, as did Ravinella and Shadayid, while Las Meninas and Harayir also came up short when they attempted the double in the 1990's.
TRW's space and defense division in Redondo Beach received funds to proceed next year on a four-year, $326-million Brilliant Pebbles pact.
He was a Member of the Lawrence Livermore Brilliant Pebbles Team for Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
Clive Brittain had notable successes with the brilliant Pebbles and Sayyedati over this distance and Air Express (3.
The three Star Wars programs are known as the Advanced Warning System, Brilliant Eyes and Brilliant Pebbles.
Previously, Payne was program development manager for TRW's Brilliant Pebbles program, part of the proposed "Star Wars" missile defense system, the technology precursor to Teledesic's distributed low-Earth-orbit architectural design.

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