Mar 24, 2025
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...
Mar 17, 2025
On October 24, 2024, former NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin joined us to applaud Elon Musk's SpaceX returning its 233 foot-tall booster to its launch tower, extending Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Single Stage-Rocket-Technology (SSRT), demonstrated...
Mar 5, 2025
Hopefully, the responses to President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2025 order to establish an Iron Dome for America will properly and fully employ a more realistic evaluation of both near-term and far-term space-based defenses.
Feb 21, 2025
Since we withdrew from the ABM Treaty and all basing concepts are now permitted, that space-based defense concept should be revived and developed with today’s much more advanced technology.
Feb 11, 2025
We need the much more effective, globally capable, missile defenses that can quite affordably be deployed in space!
Jan 31, 2025
Now is the time to return to the future! The naysayers still abound as illustrated by several recent press reports, including by individuals who ought to know better.
Dec 10, 2024
In his first term, President Trump launched the US Space Force, but, alas, to my knowledge it has not included developing a space-based intercept capability. Nor has it included an air-based defense capability like Raptor Talon of the SDI era.
Oct 23, 2024
The world is less safe now than at any time in history, but technology has also rocketed ahead with the ability to deploy on-demand and maintain space-based missile defenses, at far lower cost than today’s regional and far less effective ground-based missile defenses.