“Brilliant Peebles was the first of the kinetic space weapons programs as part of SDI.”
But never launched. I was very disappointed by that. It was a good program. Unfortunately, it was superseded by a different program.
There was a fair amount published about Brilliant Pebbles in print media before the web. Lags in the flow of information were the state of affairs then. Guess I assumed the program went black as it developed and was implemented.
Damn but we spent so much time back then just track card indices, abstract compilations, ordering publications, and waiting for snail mail delivery. Yet we managed to produce some truly amazing things.