The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: “Owning the Weather” for Military Use

The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: “Owning the Weather” for Military Use


Author’s Introductory Note

Environmental modification techniques (ENMOD) for military use
constitute, in the present context of global warfare, the ultimate
weapon of mass destruction.

Rarely acknowledged in the debate on global climate change, the
world’s weather can now be modified as part of a new generation of
sophisticated electromagnetic weapons. Both the US and Russia have
developed capabilities to manipulate the climate for military use.

Environmental modification techniques have been applied by the US
military for more than half a century. US mathematician John von
Neumann, in liaison with the US Department of Defense, started his
research on weather modification in the late 1940s at the height of the
Cold War and foresaw ‘forms of climatic warfare as yet unimagined’.
During the Vietnam war, cloud-seeding techniques were used, starting in
1967 under Project Popeye, the objective of which was to prolong the
monsoon season and block enemy supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh
Trail.

The US military has developed advanced capabilities that enable
it selectively to alter weather patterns. The technology, which is being
perfected under the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program
(HAARP), is an appendage of the Strategic Defense Initiative – ‘Star
Wars’. From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass
destruction, operating from the outer atmosphere and capable of
destabilising agricultural and ecological systems around the world.

Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report,

“offers the war fighter a wide range
of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary’, capabilities, it
says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and
earthquakes: ‘Weather modification will become a part of domestic and
international security and could be done unilaterally… It could have
offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence
purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog and storms on earth
or to modify space weather… and the production of artificial weather
all are a part of an integrated set of [military] technologies.”

In 1977, an international Convention was ratified by the UN
General Assembly which banned ‘military or other hostile use of
environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or
severe effects.’ It defined ‘environmental modification techniques’ as
‘any technique for changing –through the deliberate manipulation of
natural processes – the dynamics, composition or structure of the earth,
including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of
outer space.’

According to the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques:

The term “environmental
modification techniques” refers to any technique for changing – through
the deliberate manipulation of natural processes – the dynamics,
composition or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere,
hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space. (Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, United Nations, Geneva: 18 May 1977)

While the substance of the 1977 Convention was reasserted in the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed at the 1992
Earth Summit in Rio, debate on weather modification for military use has
become a scientific taboo.

Military analysts and scientists are mute on the subject.
Meteorologists are not investigating the matter and environmentalists
are focused on greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
Neither is the possibility of climatic or environmental manipulations as
part of a military and intelligence agenda, while tacitly acknowledged,
part of the broader debate on climate change under UN auspices.

While discussion of the post Cold War military applications of
weather warfare is a taboo, the US Air Force has nonetheless
acknowledged the strategic importance of ENMOD techniques in the modern
battlefield of non-conventional warfare and intel ops, including the
conduct, without the enemy’s knowledge, of “covert” weather modification
operations.


At this juncture in our history, US-NATO forces are deployed worldwide.

The US and its allies are not only targeting Syria, Iran and North Korea, they are also threatening Russia and China.

The Pentagon has formulated the contours of a global military agenda, a “long war”, a war without borders.

“Weather warfare” is the ultimate WMD with the
potential of destabilizing an enemy’s ecosystem, destroying its
agriculture, disabling communications networks. In other words, ENMOD
techniques can undermine an entire national economy, impoverish
millions of people and “kill a nation” without the deployment of troops
and military hardware.

The following text, with the exception of some small
edits was first published in September 2004. The 2004 article is
follow-up on an earlier study by the author entitled Washington’s New World Order Weapons Have the Ability to Trigger Climate Change, Third World Resurgence, January 2001, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO201A.html

While The Ecologist published in 2007 a shorter version of the above study, the issue of climatic manipulation for military use has largely been ignored by Environmentalists.

The URL of the original article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.html.

This essay is dedicated to the memory of Dr.
Rosalie Bertell, who, from the very outset revealed the diabolical
nature of the HAARP project, as part of an integrated non-conventional
weapons program:

“It is related to
fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to
understand and control the upper atmosphere. … HAARP is an integral part
of a long history of space research and development of a deliberate
military nature. The military implications of combining these projects
is alarming. … The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination
to deliver very large amounts of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb,
anywhere on earth via laser and particle beams, are frightening. The
project is likely to be “sold” to the public as a space shield against
incoming weapons, or, for the more gullible, a device for repairing the
ozone layer.“

It is my sincere hope that this article will
renew the debate on the dangers of weather warfare and will contribute
to the broader objective of World peace which requires the relentless
“disarming” of the US- NATO military apparatus.

Michel Chossudovsky, September 28, 2012


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Weather Warfare

The significant expansion in America’s weather
warfare arsenal, which is a priority of the Department of Defense is not
a matter for debate or discussion. While, environmentalists blame the
Bush administration for not having signed the Kyoto protocol, the issue
of “weather warfare”, namely the manipulation of weather patterns for
military use is never mentioned.

The US Air Force has the capability of manipulating climate either
for testing purposes or for outright military-intelligence use. These
capabilities extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts
and earthquakes. In recent years, large amounts of money have been
allocated by the US Department of Defense to further developing and
perfecting these capabilities.

<blockquote>Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The
ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth or to
modify space weather, … and the production of artificial weather all are
a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide
substantial increase in US, or degraded capability in an adversary, to
achieve global awareness, reach, and power. (US Air Force, emphasis added. Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report, http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/ emphasis added)
</blockquote>
While there is no firm evidence that the US Air Force weather warfare
facilities have been deliberately applied to modify weather patterns,
one would expect that if these capabilities are being developed for
military use, they would at least be the object of routine testing, much
in the same way as the testing of new conventional and strategic
weapons systems.

Needless to say, the subject matter is a scientific taboo. The
possibility of climatic or environmental manipulations as part of a
military and intelligence agenda, while tacitly acknowledged, is never
considered as relevant. Military analysts are mute on the subject.
Meteorologists are not investigating the matter, and environmentalists
are strung on global warming and the Kyoto protocol.

Ironically, the Pentagon, while recognizing its ability to modify the
World’s climate for military use, has joined the global warming
consensus. In a major study (pdf) , the Pentagon has analyzed in detail the implications of various global warming scenarios.

The Pentagon document constitutes a convenient cover-up. Not a word is mentioned about its main weather warfare program: The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokona, Alaska –jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy.

There are several mainstream explanations on weather and climate
change, none of which fully explains, within their respective terms of
reference, the highly unusual and erratic weather occurrences, not to
mention the human toll and devastation, which have led to the
destabilization of entire agricultural and eco-systems. Needless to say
these explanations never address the issue of climate manipulation for
military use.

Climatic Manipulation by the US Military: The HAARP Program

The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) based in
Gokona, Alaska, has been in existence since 1992. It is part of a new
generation of sophisticated weaponry under the US Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI). Operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space
Vehicles Directorate, HAARP constitutes a system of powerful antennas
capable of creating “controlled local modifications of the ionosphere”
[upper layer of the atmosphere]:

“[HAARP will be used] to induce a
small, localized change in ionospheric temperature so that resulting
physical reactions can be studied by other instruments located either at
or close to the HAARP site”. (HAARP website)

Nicholas Begich –actively involved in the public campaign against HAARP– describes HAARP as:
“A super-powerful radiowave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the
ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic
waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything — living and
dead.” (for further details see Michel Chossudovsky, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO201A.html )

World renowned scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell depicts
HAARP as “a gigantic heater that can cause major disruptions in the
ionosphere, creating not just holes, but long incisions in the
protective layer that keeps deadly radiation from bombarding the
planet.” (quoted in Chossudovsky, op cit.)

According to Richard Williams, a physicist and consultant to the David Sarnoff laboratory in PrincetonHAARP constitutes “an irresponsible act of global vandalism.”

He and others fear a secret second stage where HAARP would “beam
much more energy into the ionosphere. That could produce a severe
disruption of the upper atmosphere at one location that may produce
effects that spread rapidly around the Earth for years.” (Quoted in Scott Gilbert, Environmental Warfare and US Foreign Policy: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/GIL401A.html )

HAARP has been presented to public opinion as a program of scientific
and academic research. US military documents seem to suggest, however,
that HAARP’s main objective is to “exploit the ionosphere for Department
of Defense purposes.” (quoted in Chossudovsky, op cit).

Without explicitly referring to the HAARP program, a US Air Force
study points to the use of “induced ionospheric modifications” as a
means of altering weather patterns as well as disrupting enemy
communications and radar. (Ibid)

HAARP also has the ability of triggering blackouts and disrupting the electricity power system of entire regions.

An analysis of statements emanating from the US Air Force points to
the unthinkable: the covert manipulation of weather patterns,
communications systems and electric power as a weapon of global warfare,
enabling the US to disrupt and dominate entire regions of the World.

Weather Warfare: A Corporate Bonanza

HAARP has been operational since the early 1990s. Its system of
antennas at Gakona, Alaska, was initially based on a technology patented
by Advanced Power Technologies Inc. (APTI), a subsidiary of Atlantic
Ritchfield Corporation (ARCO).

The first phase of the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) was
completed by APTI. The IRI system of antennas was first installed in
1992 by a subsidiary of British Aerospace Systems (BAES) using the APTI
patent. The antennas beam into the outer-atmosphere using a set of
wireless high frequency transmitters.

In 1994, ARCO sold its APTI subsidiary, including the patents and the
second phase construction contract to E-Systems, a secretive high tech
military outfit with links to the CIA (http://www.crystalinks.com/haarp.html ).

E-Systems specializes in the production of electronic
warfare equipment, navigation and reconnaissance machinery, including
“highly sophisticated spying devices”:

“[E-Systems] is one
of the biggest intelligence contractors in the world, doing work for the
CIA, defense intelligence organizations, and others. US$1.8 billion of
their annual sales are to these organizations, with $800 million for
black projects-projects so secret that even the United States Congress
isn’t told how the money is being spent.( http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/vandalism.html )

“The company has outfitted such
military projects as the Doomsday Plan (the system that allows the
President to manage a nuclear war) and Operation Desert Storm.” (Princeton Review, http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/internshipGenInfo.asp?internshipID=998 )

With the purchase of APTI, E-Systems acquired the strategic weather
warfare technology and patent rights, including Bernard J. Eastlund’s US
Patent No: 4,686,605 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere”.

It is worth mentioning that the Eastlund /APTI patents were based on
the research of Yugoslav scientist Nicola Tesla (many of whose ideas
were stolen by US corporations). (See Scott Gilbert, Environmental Warfare and US Foreign Policy: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/GIL401A.html )

Eastlund described this deadly technology as capable of:

“causing…total disruption of
communications over a very large portion of the Earth…missile or
aircraft destruction, deflection or confusion… weather modification…” ( http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/12/HAARP.htm ),

Not surprisingly, the patent had previously been
sealed under a government secrecy order.Barely a year following the
E-Systems purchase of APTI’s weather warfare technology, E-Systems was
bought out by Raytheon, the fourth largest US military contractor.
Through this money-spinning acquisition, Raytheon became the largest
“defense electronics” firm in the World.Meanwhile, ARCO which had sold
APTI to E-Systems, had itself been acquired by the BP-AMOCO oil
consortium, thereby integrating the largest oil company in the World
(BP).

Raytheon through its E-Systems subsidiary now owns the patents used
to develop the HAARP weather warfare facility at Gakona Alaska. Raytheon
is also involved in other areas of weather research for military use,
including the activities of its subsidiary in Antarctica, Raytheon Polar
Services.

“Owning the Weather”: Towards the Expanded Final Stage

The HAARP antenna array and transmitters were slated to be built in several distinct phases http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/phases.html

• Developmental Prototype (DP) (See http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/dp.html )
  
• Filled DP (FDP),
  
• Limited IRI (LIRI)
  
• Full size or final IRI (FIRI).See http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/fdp.html
  

During the Clinton administration, the “Filled Developmental
Prototype” (FDP), namely a system composed of an array of 48 active
antenna elements with connected wireless transmitters, was installed and
completed at the HAARP facility in 1994. (See Figure 1 below) Under the
initial Developmental Prototype (DP), only 18 of the 48 transmitters
were connected.

Bernard Eastlund in a 1997 interview described this antenna array in its Filled DP stage as the “the largest ionospheric heater ever built”.

This system of 48 antennas, however, while fully operational, was not
according to Eastlund, powerful enough (in 1997) “to bring the ideas in
his patents to fruition”:.

“But they’re getting up there”, he said. “This is a very powerful device. Especially if they go to the expanded stage.” (quoted in Scott Gilbert, op cit, see also http://www.emagazine.com/january-february_1997/0197currhaarp.html )

This ‘final expanded stage’ envisioned by Eastlund, which will
provide maximum capability to manipulate the World’s weather patterns,
has now been reached.Under the Bush administration, the main partner of
Raytheon (which owns the patents) in the construction and development
stage of the HAARP antenna array, is British Aerospace Systems (BAES),
which had been involved in the initial installation of the antenna array
in the early 1990s.The multimillion dollar contract was granted by The
Office of Naval Research to BAES in 2003, through its US subsidiary BAE
Systems Advanced Technologies Inc. The contract was signed barely two
months before the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq.

Using Raytheon’s technology, BAES was to develop the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) to its maximum capabilities of “Full size or final IRI (FIRI)”.

In April 2003, BAE Systems Advanced Technologies outsourced the production and installation of the antennas to Phazar Corp (http://www.phazar.com/
), a company specializing in advanced wireless antennas for military
use. (Phazar owns Antenna Products Corporation of Mineral Wells, Texas http://www.antennaproducts.com/ ). Phazar was entrusted with producing and installing 132 crossed dipole antennas items for the HAARP facility. (http://www.antennaproducts.com/News%20Release%2004-18-03.pdf )

A year later, in April 2004, the final phase in the expansion of the
HAARP facility was launched. (Dept of Defense, 19 April 2004). This
phase consisted in equipping all the 180 antennas with high frequency
transmitters. BAE Systems was awarded another lucrative contract, this
time for $35 million.

In July 2004, Phazar had delivered and installed the 132 crossed
dipole antennas including the antenna support structures and ground
screen items at the HAARP facility, bringing the number of antennas from
48 under the FDP stage to 180. (see Table 2).

Meanwhile, BAE Systems had contracted with Jersey based defense electronics firm DRS Technologies, Inc
in an $11.5 million outsourcing arrangement, the production and
installation of the high-frequency (HF) radio transmitters for the HAARP
antenna array. (See http://www.drs.com/press/archivelist.cfm?PRESS_RELEASE_ID=1529&preview=1
and Business Wire, 15 June 2004). DRS specializes in a variety of
leading edge products for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.( http://www.drs.com/corporateinfo/index.cfm ).

Under its contract with BAE Systems Information and Electronic
Warfare Systems in Washington, D.C., DRS is to manufacture and install
“more than 60 Model D616G 10-Kilowatt Dual Transmitters” to be used with
the HAARP system of antennas. (It is unclear from the company
statements whether all the 180 antennas will be equipped with a
transmitter, bringing the system up to full IRI capabilities).

Deliveries and installation are to be completed by July 2006. While
HAARP is described as a “research project”, the production of the
transmitters was entrusted to DRS’ C41 “Command, Control,
Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Group”

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The diagram and images below describe the HAARP Alaska Facility in 1997.

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Figure 1: The Array of 48 Antenna Elements with the Transmitter Shelters (FDP stage)

The 48 antenna array is supported by transmitter shelters, each of
which contains 6 transmitter cabinets. (See image of shelter below)

Each cabinet contains two transmitters. (image of cabinet below)

The newly installed 132 dipole antennas supplied by Phazar vastly
increase the size of the HAARP Alaska facility; the new transmitters
are supplied and installed by DRS





Image 1: Aerial Photo of the HAARP Alaska Site

Source: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/ohd.html





Image 2: HAARP Antenna Array

Source: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/HaarpSite.html

Image 3 Transmitter Shelter

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/images/trans/transtr.jpg

Transmitter Shelter containing Six Transmitter Cabinets. Each Cabinet contains two transmitters



Image 4: Inside the Transmitter Shelter

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/images/trans/shelter.jpg



Image 5. Two Transmitters making up a Transmitter Cabinet

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/images



Testing of HAARP Equipment (2003- 2004)

It is worth noting that the expansion of the antenna array (e.g.
during 2003-2004) required, as part of the contracts reached with BAE
Systems and its various subcontractors, the routine testing of the
installed weather warfare equipment. An intermediate stage Limited IRI
(LIRI), could be in operation by 2004, following the completion of the
180 antenna array under the Phazar contract and pending the final
delivery of the remaining HF radio transmitters.

In this regard, a report published by the Russian parliament (Duma)
in 2002, suggests that the US Military had plans to test its weather
modification techniques at its Alaska facility, as well as at two other
sites:

<blockquote>“The committees reported that the USA is planning to
test three facilities of this kind. One of them is located on the
military testing ground in Alaska and its full-scale tests are to begin
in early 2003. The second one is in Greenland and the third one in
Norway.

“When these facilities are launched into space from Norway,
Alaska and Greenland, a closed contour will be created with a truly
fantastic integral potential for influencing the near-Earth medium,” the
State Duma said.

The USA plans to carry out large-scale scientific experiments
under the HAARP program, and not controlled by the global community, will
create weapons capable of breaking radio communication lines and
equipment installed on spaceships and rockets, provoke serious accidents
in electricity networks and in oil and gas pipelines and have a
negative impact on the mental health of people populating entire regions, the deputies said. (Interfax News Agency, original Russian, BBC Monitoring, 8 August 2002, emphasis added)
</blockquote>
Whether this report by the Russian Duma on testing “starting in early
2003″ is correct or not, the US administration must be confronted
nationally and internationally, at the political and diplomatic levels,
at the UN and the US Congress, by the international scientific
community, by environmentalists and the antiwar movement. The future of
humanity is threatened by the use of weather modification techniques.

Moreover, to wage an effective campaign, it is essential that
corroborating scientific investigation of the unusual weather
occurrences observed in recent years (and particularly since early 2003)
be undertaken. This investigation should be far-reaching, collecting
relevant data, correlating specific weather occurrences to recorded
antenna activity at the Alaska site as well as at the two other sites,
etc.

The Full Size Ionospheric Research Instrument FIRI stage, described
as “a maximum size of 180 antenna elements, arranged in 15 columns by
12 rows” is scheduled to be completed by mid-2006 (assuming the
installation of the remaining dual transmitters), at which time the
HAARP program will have reached its maximum FIRI capacity, meaning the
ability to selectively modify, for military use, weather patterns
anywhere in the World.

<blockquote>“The IRI is currently [June 2004] composed of 48
antenna elements and has a power capacity of 960,000 watts. When
installed, the additional 132 transmitters will give HAARP a 3.6
mega-watt capacity [see Table 2 below]. The HAARP build-out is jointly
funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy and the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA). (Business Wire, 10 June 2004)
</blockquote>
Table 2: Comparison of IRI Phases

DPFDPLIRIFIRI

Number of Active Antenna Elements	18	48	108	180
Total Transmitter Power (kW)	360	960	2160	3600
Maximum Antenna Gain (dB)	19	24	29	31
Max Effective Radiated Pwr (dBW)	74	84	92	96
Min Antenna Pattern Width (degrees)		9	8	5
Frequency Range	2.8 to 10 MHz
Modulation Types	CW/AM/FM/PM

Source http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/phases.html

This advanced stage of full capacity (FIRI) corresponds to what the US Air Force has called “Owning the Weather”:

<blockquote>US aerospace forces [will] ‘own the weather’ by
capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those
technologies to war-fighting applications… From enhancing friendly
operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of
natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications
and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary…
In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of
national security policy with both domestic and international
applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its
interests, at various levels.(US Air Force, emphasis added. Air
University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report, http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/ )
</blockquote>
Weather Warfare against “Rogue States”

The unusual climatic occurrences in the US and Western Europe have been extensively documented.

However, what the news media has failed to underscore is
that a number of unusual and dramatic climatic changes have occurred in
recent years in countries which are identified as possible targets
under the US Administration’s pre-emptive war doctrine.

Weather patterns in North Korea, for instance, have been
marked since the mid-1990s by a succession of droughts, followed by
floods. The result has been the destruction of an entire agricultural
system. In Cuba, the pattern is very similar to that observed in North
Korea. (see Table 3)

In Iraq, Iran and Syria, a devastating drought occurred
in 1999. In Afghanistan, four years of drought in the years preceding
the US led invasion in 2001, have led to the destruction of the peasant
economy, leading to widespread famine.

While there is no proof that these weather occurrences
are the result of climatic warfare, Phillips Geophysics Lab, which is a
partner in the HAARP project provides a course for military personnel at
the Hanscom Air Force Base in Maryland, on “Weather Modification
Techniques”. The course outline explicitly contemplates the triggering
of storms, hurricanes, etc. for military use. (See his slide show at http://www.dtc.army.mil/tts/1997/proceed/abarnes/ open PowerPoint presentation at http://www.dtc.army.mil/tts/tts97/abarnes.zip )

Weather manipulation is the pre-emptive weapon par
excellence. It can be directed against enemy countries or even “friendly
nations”, without their knowledge. Weather warfare constitutes a covert
form of pre-emptive war. The manipulation of climate can be used to
destabilize an enemy’s economy, ecosystem and agriculture (e.g. North
Korea or Cuba). Needless to say it can trigger havoc in financial and
commodity markets and can potentially be used as an instrument of
“insider trade” for financial gain. It has the ability of destabilizing a
country’s institutions. Concurrently, the disruption in agriculture
creates a greater dependency on food aid and imported grain staples from
the US and other Western countries.

The Bush administration has stated that it reserves the
right to attack these countries preemptively, with a view to ensuring
the security of the American homeland.

Washington –as part of its nuclear posture review– has
threatened several countries including China and Russia with pre-emptive
nuclear strikes. One would assume that the same targeting of rogue
states exists with regard to the use of weather modification
techniques”.

While there is no evidence of the use of weather warfare
against rogue states, the policy guidelines on “weather intervention
techniques” have already been established and the technology is fully
operational.

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Table 3: Unusual Weather Occurrences: North Korea, Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq

<blockquote>
North Korea

Recurrent flooding and drought often in the same year
has hit North Korea since 1995, 220,000 people died in the ensuing
famine, according to Pyongyang’s own figures. U.S. figures place the
number of deaths resulting from famine at 2 million.

The first major flooding occurred in 1995.

There were floods and drought in 1999. The serious water
shortage resulting from the 1999 drought was conducive to the
destruction of crops.

<blockquote>“The temperature of water in rice fields goes beyond
40 degrees and the tall rice plants fresh from the rice seedling beds
are withering. In particular, nearly all after-crop maize seedlings and
seeds are perishing,” it added.
</blockquote>
In 2001, in June there was an extensive drought with
rainfall just 10% of normal levels, which served to undermine
agricultural crops. And then a few months later, in October, there were
extensive floodings leading to the further destruction of rice harvests
and a crisis situation in food distribution.

<blockquote>
“Officials in Kangwon province – an area which
already suffers food shortages – say the impact of the torrential rain
and flooding has been devastating. The normal recorded rainfall for
October should be around 20mm. But in the worst-affected areas 400mm (18
inches) of rain fell in just 12 hours. “It was the worst flooding we’ve
had since records began in 1910,” said Kim Song Hwan, head of the
government’s Flood Damage Rehabilitation Committee for the region. (BBC, 23 Oct 2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1614981.stm )

</blockquote>
Cuba

For several years Cuba has been affected by recurrent droughts. In
1998, rainfall in Eastern Cuba was at its lowest level since 1941.

<blockquote>A United Nations team estimated 539,000 people,
280,000 of them farmers, were directly affected by reduced availability
of food or reduced income through production losses. Some reported
effects are: hunger in areas; a loss of up to 14% of the sugar cane crop
planted last year and a reduction in this spring’s planted crops, since
rains were not sufficient for some seeds to germinate (which will
reduce next year’s crop); as much as 42% losses in food staples such as
root vegetables, beans, bananas, and rice in the five eastern provinces;
and livestock, poultry, and egg production losses

(UN Relief, http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/2975570e60ff2a7685256680005a8e2d?OpenDocument )
</blockquote>
In 2003, a devastating drought hit the Western part of Cuba

In 2004 May-June, the country is hit by the worst drought in its history:

<blockquote> ”A severe drought enveloping eastern Cuba has eroded
40 percent of the farmland, starved thousands of heads of cattle and
has close to 4 million people counting every drop of water they
consume.” The drought is described as the worst in 40 years.

“The drought has robbed underground water levels of some 10 feet
over the past 10 years, leaving over 5,000 wells across the province
dry,” said Leandro Bermudez, a geologist and the second man at Cuba’s
National Institute of Hydraulic Resources. (MSNBC, 21 June 2004 http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5262324
</blockquote>
The cities are running out of water. According to the Independent, “Drought is bringing Cuba to its knees

<blockquote>Unnoticed by the world, the longest dry period for
decades has brought much of Cuba to its knees. Could this be the crisis
that finally destroys Fidel’s revolution?

“All across central and eastern Cuba, farmers, ranchers, city
dwellers and government officials are scrambling to deal with a
punishing drought that began a decade ago and intensified in the last
two years.

Although traditionally arid, the provinces of Holguin, Camaguey and
Las Tunas hold some of Cuba’s finest pasture and farmland and have long
been crucial to this communist nation’s dairy, beef and agricultural
industries.

More than 12,500 cattle have died in Holguin alone in 2004 and milk
production has fallen 20 percent. The price of beans, plantains, sweet
potatoes and other staples has soared in private markets.

The drought has caused millions of dollars in losses and officials
are spending millions more digging wells, building a water pipeline and
taking other measures to try to ease the crisis – huge sums in an
impoverished nation struggling through tough economic times and a battle
with the United States.

Officials also have moved thousands of cattle to more fertile areas
and are working furiously to finish a 32-mile pipeline that will draw
water to Holguin city from Cuba’s largest river, the Cauto. The $5
million pipeline could be completed next month. (Chicago Tribune, July
29, 2004, http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/9271316.htm )
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The above report date to September 2004, it was published before, the
hurricanes hit the Cuban coastline followed by torrential rains.

Afghanistan and The former Soviet Republics of Central Asia

The worst drought in Afghanistan history occurred in the
three consecutive years prior to the onslaught of the US led invasion,
from 1999 to 2001. The agricultural recovery of the 1990s, in the wake
of the Soviet-Afghan war was brought to a standstill.

In the wake of the US led 2001 invasion, the United
States supplied Afghanistan with genetically modified wheat and
appropriate types of fertilizer to be used with the GM wheat, which was
said to be high yield drought resistant. The donation of GM wheat,
however, also led to destabilizing the small peasant economy because the
GM wheat varieties could not reproduced locally. In 2002, famines which
were barely reported by the media, swept the country.

Similar although less severe conditions prevailed in the
former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

<blockquote>Like Afghanistan, Tajikistan has had its
infrastructure ruined by prolonged civil war with Muslim
fundamentalists. Since then, the worst regional drought in 74 years has
destroyed food crops over a large part of the nation, rendering almost
half of the 6.2 million people in the country vulnerable to the threat
of famine and disease, up from 3 million last year. About the only
portion of the economy that has been unaffected is the drug trade.
Tajikistan is the transit route for 65 to 85 percent of heroin smuggled
out of Afghanistan, the world’s largest producer. (http://www.americanfreepress.net/Mideast/Drought__Desperation_Breed_Vio/drought__desperation_breed_vio.html ]

Triggered by the lowest rainfall (2001) in living memory, vast
tracts of Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan are being reduced to
desert as the water table sinks, long-established wells dry up and
herds of livestock perish.

The crisis appears to fulfill alarming climate change predictions
suggesting that states along the old Silk Road will experience steeper
rises in temperature than any other region on earth. By the end of the
century it will be 5C hotter in an area which regularly sees the
thermometer soar above 40C.

The study, published last year by the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research at the University of East Anglia, predicted that Asian
countries from Kazakhstan to Saudi Arabia will warm up more than twice
as much as others. “Several states,” the report added, “including
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran, [are facing] famine.”

In Tajikistan, the United Nations appealed for aid to avert
disaster. “Substantial foreign aid is needed or else there will be a
large-scale famine,” said Matthew Kahane, the UN’s humanitarian aid
coordinator, speaking from the capital, Dushanbe.

“The country has had its lowest rainfall for 75 years. Families
who survived last year by selling their cows and chickens now have no
other means of coping. Some households have sold the glass out of their
windows and the wooden beams from their roofs to raise money for food.”

(The Guardian, 0ct 30, 2001, http://www.guardian.co.uk/famine/story/0,12128,736902,00.html )
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Iraq

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In 1999, Iraq suffered its worst drought of the century,
with the effect of triggering an even greater dependence on imported
grain under the oil for food program. There was a drop of up to 70
percent in domestic yields of wheat, barley and other cereals, which
served to further weaken the country’s economy, crippled by economic
sanctions and the routine bombing by allied aircraft in the no-fly
zones.

A similar (although less serious) situation prevailed in Syria and Iran, marked by significant declines in agricultural output.


Source:-
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ultimate-weapon-of-mass-destruction-owning-the-weather-for-military-use-2/

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