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October 9, 2005
Weather War?
New evidence suggests US & Russia are embroiled in an
illegal race to harness the power of hurricanes & earthquakes
by The Daily Express
October 8, 2005
The Daily Express (U.K.) - 2005-07-16
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THE huge mushroom cloud soared skywards, the captain was
gripped by fear, believing his plane was about to be engulfed by the
fall-out from a nuclear explosion. After declaring mayday and ordering his
crew to don oxygen masks, the experienced pilot had the presence of mind
to record that the cloud measured an estimated 200 miles in diameter and
was tipped by an eerie light, like nothing he had seen before. Eventually,
it soared harmlessly into the atmosphere, leaving the passenger jet to
continue safely on its journey from Anchorage, in Alaska, to Tokyo.
But far below, a fleet of fishing boats trawling the sea
between Japan and the Soviet Union was drenched by a violent but
short-lived downpour before the weather suddenly cleared. Nuclear tests
and volcanic activity were later ruled out but scientists concluded that
this was not a natural phenomenon. More than two decades later suspicion
still exists that the stunned airline crew and fishermen in 1973 were
witnessing a sinister Cold War experiment, in which water from the Sea of
Japan was blown into the air to create clouds and rain.
British government papers, just released by the National
Archives, show that throughout the Seventies there was deep mistrust
between the two superpowers over environmental warfare. The documents
reveal that both the US, which led the field, and the Soviet Union had
secret military programmes with the goal of controlling the world's
climate. "By the year 2025 the United States will own the weather, " one
scientist is said to have boasted.
Since then, a United Nations treaty has been signed
which bans environmental warfare, such as causing earthquakes, melting the
polar ice caps and altering climate. But some experts believe that
clandestine work to create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction
continues.
These claims are dismissed by sceptics as wild
conspiracy theories and the stuff of James Bond movies but there is
growing evidence that the boundaries between science fiction and fact are
becoming increasingly blurred. The Americans now admit that they invested
L12million over five years during the Vietnam war on "cloud seeding" -
deliberately creating heavy rainfall to wash away enemy crops and destroy
supply routes on the Ho Chi Minh trail, in an operation codenamed Project
Popeye.
It is claimed that rainfall was increased by a third in
targeted areas, making the weather-manipulation weapon a success. At the
time, government officials said the region was prone to heavy rain.
However this sort of rain-making experiment was nothing
new. In Britain, it has been alleged that before the devastating Lynmouth
floods in Devon in 1952, the RAF had been conducting secret rain-making
tests. Aircraft showered clouds with silver iodide, on which water
droplets formed, became heavy and eventually fell to the ground as rain.
In the next 12 hours nine inches of rain fell - 250 times the normal
amount for August - and 35 people were killed.
Former North Devon MP Tony Speller, then a 22-year-old
soldier who helped in the relief effort, sought answers from the MoD.
"I have no doubt they were seeding in the area because
there were RAF log books to prove it, " he says now. "Of course the MoD
denied any knowledge but that is not to say it did not happen."
Speller, now 76, adds: "I doubt we will ever know the
truth."
Early work on climate control was crude and
unpredictable but it is claimed that both the Americans and Russians
continued to experiment behind closed doors even after the UN ban in the
mid-Eighties, and both now possess sophisticated systems which are capable
of controlling the weather - with potentially devastating results.
In the US, the technology was developed under the
high-frequency active auroral research programme ( HAARP) - originally
part of Ronald Reagan's controversial Star Wars defence system. Based in
Gokoma, Alaska, the weapon operates by beaming powerful radio waves into
the upper atmosphere to alter weather patterns. Some experts claim the
system is already up and running, while others say it won't be ready for
another 20 years.
Michel Chossudovsky, professor of economics at the
University of Ottawa in Canada, who has studied official military
documents about HAARP, is in no doubt that the weapon is ready.
"There are very clear statements by the US Air Force to
the effect that weather modification technology is available. HAARP will
be fully operational by next year and could be used in actual military
situations, " he says.
"To claim this system has any nonmilitary purposes is
twisting the truth.
I don't think there are any peaceful applications - it
is a weapon of mass destruction, capable of major climatic disturbance.
Part of the beauty is that the enemy might never know that a weapon had
been used. I believe the UN agreement is certainly being violated."
He claims that at least one British firm has been
involved in its development.
"It is time people began focusing on these weapons
instead of concentrating solely on global warming, " Chossudovsky adds.
"Both are a serious threat."
The Russians are thought to have their own "weather
steering" system, called Woodpecker, involving the transmission of
low-frequency waves which are capable of disrupting the atmosphere and
altering the path of the jet stream. It is claimed that a prolonged
drought in California in the Eighties was caused by the blocking of warm,
moist air for many weeks.
According to Damian Wilson, a physicist with the Met
Office, controlling climate is a reality but not a precise science.
"Clearing fog by dropping dry ice into clouds is a proven technique which
has been around for decades, " he says.
"Large amounts of research have been invested in seeding
clouds to generate rain and it is done in countries where there are water
shortages. The problem is that it is unpredictable and you need clouds to
start with. The technology does not exist to make rain fall from clear
blue skies so it cannot be used in the desert to end droughts and
famines."
WILSON believes it is possible to alter the course of a
hurricane, which could have enormous life-saving potential. The current
mayhem in the Caribbean and America's Eastern seaboard also shows what a
destructive weapon a well-targeted storm could prove.
The Americans used cloud seeding to try to control a
hurricane in 1947 but the tactic backfired when it picked up strength and
hit Savannah, Georgia.
It is known that the US carried out further
hurricane-manipulation experiments between 1962 and 1983, under the
codename Project Stormfury, after it was calculated that a single
hurricane contained as much energy as all the world's power stations
combined. More recent projects have involved pouring tens of thousands of
gallons of vegetable oil on to the sea.
"Hurricanes gather their strength from the warm sea
surface, " says Wilson. "By spreading a large film of oil on the sea it
would reduce the intensity by cooling the surface. In theory it is
possible to change the path of the hurricane this way. It would not
surprise me if military research into controlling the weather goes on. As
we suffer more summer droughts in the south-east of England I would also
expect to see pressure for cloud seeding to be introduced in this
country."
It is not just the weather that has attracted the
attention of the military.
Scientists have also researched ways of triggering
earthquakes. By setting off small quakes, pressure could be released and a
disaster averted. But military scientists believe it is also possible to
direct powerful energy beams into vulnerable fault zones, causing the
Earth's plates to shift, creating a massive earthquake. Along fault lines
beneath the oceans, the same technology could be used to launch
devastating tsunamis.
Part of the problem in banning experiments involves
agreeing a definition of what environmental warfare is. It has been argued
that the famous Dambusters mission during the Second World War, when
bouncing bombs were used to flood the German industrial heartland, were a
form of environmental warfare.
Half a century later, the threat is still being taken
sufficiently seriously.
Former US defence secretary William Cohen warns:
"Terrorists are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can
alter the climate, set off earthquakes and volcanoes remotely through the
use of electromagnetic waves. It's real, and that's the reason why we have
to intensify our efforts."
Owen Greene, director of research at Bradford
University's department of Peace Studies, believes efforts are continuing
in secret to develop weapons that harness nature.
"There is so much money within the Pentagon that it
would surprise me if they were not looking into it, " he says. "I suspect
it is going on in both the US and Russia. You can't stop people
researching the weather. As for earthquakes, you don't even need to spend
money on active military programmes because there is so much other work
going on which could easily be adapted. Some of the ideas are quite
credible."
Another defence source says: "The risk is that by
fooling around with nature, we may unleash irreversible damage and change
our entire planet's atmosphere."
Despite these stark warnings, such is the immense power
of nature, it seems inevitable that Man will continue to play God.
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