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atomic bomb was to WWII, especially if it
could be adapted to wide area look downshoot
down UAV aerial delivery.
Man induced weather extremes
as a weapon. California’s current
drought is in its tenth year with no end in
sight. Reservoirs and freshwater sources
like rivers and wells are at their lowest
levels in recorded history. Rationing
of potable water has been imposed upon
residents, and even sufficient quantities
of non-potable water for farming irrigation
is critically limited. Discounting the
non-scientific climate change claims made
by former vice-president Al Gore, these
drought conditions are the result of weather
patterns that man has no control over.
But what if man could influence the weather,
or, at least manipulate specific regional
weather patterns to intentionally cause
floods, drought and/or temperature extremes
within an opponents’ home country
or area of operation(s)? Perhaps, in the
not too far distant future, man will be able
to influence weather patterns by employing
atmospheric chemical seeding and dynamic
thermal energetic stimuli utilizing
lasers and electromagnetic influence.
In 1994 the U.S. Air Force revealed a
master plan they named Spacecast 2020.
Among several stated objectives, the plan
includes the stated unambiguous goal of
weather control. The plan openly acknowledged,
“Using environmental modification
techniques to destroy, damage or injure
another state are prohibited.” The Air
Force justified its weather modification
research based upon advances in (weather
modification) technology that “compels
a reexamination of this sensitive and potentially
risky topic.” In 1997, while at a
high-level conference on weapons of mass
destruction, U.S. Secretary of Defense
William Cohen went on record with a revealing
statement, “Others (nations) are
engaging in an eco-type of terrorism,” he
noted, “whereby they can alter the climate,
set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely
through the use of electromagnetic waves.
So, there are plenty of ingenious minds
out there that are at work finding ways in
which they can wreak terror upon other
nation. It’s real, and that’s the reason why
we have to intensify our own efforts.”
DARPA has considered a number of
potential weather modification technologies
over the last twenty years. Some of the
open source reports point to manipulating
lightening, hurricanes and earthquakes
in projects code named respectively, Skyfire,
Stormfurry and Prime Argus. DARPA
also invested $30 million in a secret project
(likely much more on the black side),
code named HAARP. HAARP is short for
High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program. It works by beaming more than
1.7 gigawatts (1.7 billion watts) of radiated
power into the electrically charged layer
above Earth’s atmosphere known as the
ionosphere. This literally boils the upper
atmosphere and selectively displaces the
surrounding ozone layer, allowing weather
modification above a planned location. The
weather extreme desired and the area targeted
can be manipulated by the amount of
energy used and the direction it is aimed.
While HAARP’s official story characterizes
it as an experimental antenna used for
submarine communications (and it may
well do that), but it has far more sinister
applications the military isn’t revealing.
There are many more technologies
that can be explored. The technologies chosen
for this article show both game-changing
promise and future direction. It is our
sincere desire that you find this thought
provoking, disturbing, or even somewhat
comforting. Perhaps there is a big picture
somewhere out there in the ether. If so, its
boundaries need to be defined.
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