October 1, 2012
Environmental modification techniques (ENMOD) for military use
constitute, in the present context of global warfare, the ultimate
weapon of mass destruction.
Global Research, September 28, 2012
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:
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.
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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