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Brilliant Pebbles Can Provide a Real Space-Based Missile Defense for Golden Dome

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesballistic missile interception, Blue Origin, boost-phase intercept, Brilliant Pebbles, cost-effective defense, Future Space-Based Interceptors, Golden Dome, homeland missile defense, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, layered missile defense, low Earth orbit (LEO), missile defense strategy, national missile defense policy, Nuclear Deterrence, placebo defense, rogue state threats, Space control, space launch capabilities, space-based interceptors, space-based missile defense, SpaceX, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), Team B, technological readiness

Brilliant Pebbles Can Provide a Real Space-Based Missile Defense for Golden Dome

Matthew Mowthorpe0 Comments

The announcement of Golden Dome in May 2025 has reinvigorated discussions around the often-maligned concept of space-based missile defenses. Ever since President Reagan’s 1983 speech announcing the Strategic Defense Initiative…

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A Second Look at the Critiques and Narratives Against Golden Dome for America

Archive, Bonus Reads, Space Deterrence & Conflict, Strategic AdversariesAmerica, anti-ballistic missile tech, anti-satellite weapons, ASAT, ballistic missiles, boost-phase intercept, China, Christopher Stone, congress, cruise missiles, Department of Defense, Donald Trump, Golden Dome, homeland security, hypersonic missiles, missile defense shield, National defense, National Institute for Deterrence Studies. , nuclear forces, Ronald Reagan, Russia, SDI, sensors, Soviet Union, space attack forces, space forces, space infrastructure, space-based interceptors, space-based missile defenses, space-to-ground attack, Strategic Defense Initiative, trackers, untested technology

A Second Look at the Critiques and Narratives Against Golden Dome for America

Christopher Stone2 Comments

President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome for America is criticized for being provocative, de-stabilizing, opening Pandora’s box, and the so-called militarization of space. Yet these narratives are not new. The same…

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ICBM EAR Report – November 22

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Bonus Reads, Defense & Security, EAR Report, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesboost-phase intercept, China, conventional threats, defense industrial base, geopolitical tensions, homeland security, ICBM, layered defense, missile defense, National Security, North Korea, nuclear doctrine, nuclear modernization, nuclear triad, Russia, space-based sensors, strategic imperatives, strategic stability, U.S. nuclear deterrent, Ukraine

ICBM EAR Report – November 22

Peter Huessy0 Comments

Introduction This week's EAR Report brings critical updates on global security dynamics in a world fraught with geopolitical tensions and nuclear threats. From the evolving nuclear doctrines of major…

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