| 单词 | brilliant pebbles |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBrilliant Pebbles Brilliant Pebbles n. a defence strategy conceived as part of the U.S. Strategic Defence Initiative in which incoming enemy missiles are intercepted and destroyed by numerous small heat-seeking missiles; also (usually in lower case), the intercepting missiles themselves. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > [noun] > means of defence > specific defence strategy Star Wars1983 S.D.I.1984 Brilliant Pebbles1988 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [noun] > types of loon1947 seeker1949 Honest John1952 Nike1952 heat-seeker1956 anti-ballistic missile1957 Polaris1957 Pershing1958 SAM1958 cruise missile1959 sea-cat1959 minuteman1961 ABM1963 lance1964 Exocet1970 trident1972 MX missile1973 stinger1975 cruise1976 tomahawk1976 silo buster1977 Euromissile1979 Brilliant Pebbles1988 1988 Aviation Week 21 Mar. 15 Lowell Wood, a directed energy advocate, last week suggested an alternative SDI architecture based on small, lightweight and inexpensive kinetic energy interceptors... ‘Shrinking contemporary smart rocks into brilliant pebbles is an exercise in packaging engineering,’ he told a symposium on SDI. 1988 Aviation Week 22 Aug. 15 Edward Teller and Lowell Wood briefed President Reagan in secret in late July and..early August on the Brilliant Pebbles interceptor. Brilliant pebbles are an alternative approach to the SDI's Space-Based Interceptor weapon. 1989 Economist 4 Feb. 44/3 ‘Brilliant pebbles’..would be tiny heat-seeking missiles already lurking in orbit... Their brilliance would derive from single microchips frozen to superconducting temperatures, each with the power of a modern supercomputer. 1992 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 8 Nov. c4/1 Clinton..intends to scrap the massive space-based defense system known as Brilliant Pebbles. < as lemmas |
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