The Rise and Fall of Brilliant Pebbles. Paper presented at "They Taught the World to Fly: The Wright Brothers and the Age of Flight," an International Flight Symposium Sponsored by the North Carolina First Flight Centennial Commission, 23 October 2001. By Donald R. Baucom, Missile Defense Agency.

President Bush's speech to the UN General Assembly on September 11, 2002, and the accompanying background paper making the case against Iraq.

Two articles from the September 10, 2002 Oakland Tribune on Brilliant Pebbles and High Frontier's and Amb. Cooper's work to help this program.

In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee last summer (July, 2000) Secretary of Defense William Cohen stated that Ground-Based missile defense was more mature than other missile defense system architectures, notably sea and space based systems. In this detailed letter to Committee Chairman John Warner, Ambassador Cooper corrects Secretary Cohen's misconstruction of history and replaces it with facts on the high development of sea and space based missile defense systems.

Almost three years ago, the Washington Post revealed again how ballistic missiles, as well as other threatening cargo, can be transported by ships.  Reported on August 14, 2003 was a 1999 discovery by customs agents in India of a “hidden missile factory” on a North Korean freighter – apparently on its way to Libya, according to unnamed U.S. intelligence officials. Indian technical experts are reported to have concluded that the equipment was “unimpeachable and irrefutable evidence” of a plan to transfer not just missiles but missile making capability. On December 14-15, 2005 Ambassador Cooper commented in detail on IImplementing the New Triad: Nuclear & Non-Nuclear Forces in Twenty-First-Century Deterrence at the 36th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy.

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