Word: abrahamson
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...then Lieut. General James Abrahamson, the outgoing SDI director, said he would be willing to scuttle some important elements of Phase I in favor of a new technology, "Brilliant Pebbles." Initially, SDI had called for hundreds of orbiting "garages," each carrying ten killer rockets that would crash into oncoming Soviet ICBMs. In the latest version, some 6,000 independent Pebbles, each 3 ft. long and weighing perhaps 100 lbs., would do the job. The new SDI director, Lieut. General George Monahan, has cautiously embraced the concept as "doable" but warns that it is still an experimental approach. SDI supporters have...
...head of the "Star Wars" program, Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson has admitted that nuclear power in space is necessary for SDI to work Without it, he said, "that's going to be a long, long lightcord that goes down to the surface of the earth." Ten percent of the SDI budget goes towards developing satellites powered by nuclear bomb pulses and nuclear reactors; current plans call for up to 100 to be put into orbit...
...much hope of meeting the target date of 1992 for deciding whether to proceed with the first phase of the system. Deployment of even the most basic systems is unlikely before the end of the century or beyond, and even SDI's director, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, admits that the program is so far behind that "research does not yet show whether major deployment is justified...
Although the hardware to be tested is relatively conventional compared with the laser beams and nuclear-generated X rays proposed for the future, the six systems involved would be central to the initial deployment of any antimissile system envisioned by this Administration. Lieut. General James Abrahamson, head of SDI, is explicit about the purpose of Milestone I. "We'd like to reach a position where in the 1990s we will be able to go ahead with deployment," he says, "and to do that we need the enhanced confidence gained from additional testing." Equally important, the tests will give new momentum...
Lieut. General James Abrahamson, director of the Strategic Defense Initiative, has confirmed that such a weapon, which he calls a "kind of nuclear shotgun with little pellets," is being developed under the code name Prometheus, despite SDI's supposedly nonnuclear status. It is only one among several new approaches to nuclear weaponry secretly under study in the nation's bomb-design shops, including the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories...