If the Bush Administration wants to spend some of that money on brilliant pebbles research, fine.

Say you have a battle manager who wants to fire a Brilliant Pebble?

Unfortunately, brilliant pebbles looks no more promising than its predecessors.

General Abrahamson said these brilliant pebbles could be deployed for less than $10 billion.

Their job was to take out the missiles that the Brilliant Pebbles missed.

To the Brilliant Pebbles, the missiles became harder to track.

The proposal now at the center of growing excitement and debate is "Brilliant Pebbles."

We could be close to a "brilliant pebbles" space defense, the progeny of "smart rocks" technology.

Brilliant Pebbles has faced intense opposition by critics who have said it would be the first step in militarizing space.

A proposal about "Brilliant Pebbles" is generating excitement and debate.