When the Army Owns the Weather

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When the Army Owns the Weather

Bob Fitrakis, Columbus Alive

February 5, 2002

Humans have long sought to control the weather. Early people learned how to

make fire and modify their micro-environments; rain dances and other rituals

to alleviate droughts are part of our folklore. So news that the government

is engaged in secret experiments to control the weather should come as no

surprise -- especially after a long history of " cloud seeding, " " atom

splitting " and cloning revelations.

In fact, a vast majority of people would be shocked to learn that this

orphan of the cold war is still in practice. As the U.S. and former Soviet

Union spent trillions of dollars on their militaries, their commitment to

mutually assured destruction led to extensive experimentation with the use

of weather as a weapon. In 1977, the Saturday Review cited a CIA report

hinting that the U.S. government already had the power to massively

manipulate the weather for war purposes.

As the Soviet Union disintegrated, a 1993 Isvestia article suggested the

U.S. might want to partner with the Russians in peddling their top-secret

technology to the world. Oleg Klugin, a high-ranking KGB officer, bragged of

his involvement in geophysical weapons research to a London newspaper. The

grid patterns of jet chemtrails now spotted throughout the Western world are

likely the application of these technologies to new military and civilian

uses.

The military is not attempting to hide its long-term goals. " Weather is a

Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 " is a white paper that can be

found on a Pentagon-sponsored website. The paper's abstract reads: " In 2025,

U.S. aerospace forces can 'own the weather' by capitalizing on emerging

technologies and focusing development of those technologies towards fighting

applications. Such a capability offers the war fighters tools to shape the

battle space in ways never before possible. In the U.S., weather

modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both

domestic and international applications. "

Wired magazine wrote about the paper and extensively quoted physicist

Bernard Eastlund in its January 2000 article " Activate Cloud Shield! Zap a

Twister! " The article detailed the military's plan for " made-to-order

thunderstorms " and " lightning strikes on demand. "

Eastlund managed programs for Controlled Thermal Nuclear Research for the

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1966 to 1974; he was a key researcher in

the 1980s' Strategic Space Initiative (aka Star Wars). Since 1996, Eastlund

served as CEO and president of Eastlund Scientific Enterprises Corporation.

The company boasts on its website that it specializes in " weather

modification " and " tornado modification " among other high-tech services.

Eastlund considers the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program

(HAARP) in Alaska a smaller version of what he envisions for weather

modification. In response to Theroux of Borderland Sciences -- who

asked Eastlund whether the HAARP station could affect the weather --

Eastlund replied: " Significant experiments could be performed. The HAARP

antenna as is it now configured modulates the auroral electrojet to induce

ELF waves and thus could have an effect on the zonal winds. "

At the Space 2000 Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction,

Operations and Business in Space, sponsored by the American Society of Civil

Engineers, Eastlund outlined his plan for zapping tornados with an

electromagnetic radiation beam from the proposed Thunderstorm Solar Powered

Satellite he's developing with the help of the European Space Agency and

Enterprises.

U.S. patent number 6315213, filed on November 13, is described as a method

of modifying weather and should concern the public. A scientist from

Air Force Base acknowledges that planes are spraying barium salt,

polymer fibers, aluminum oxide and other chemicals in the atmosphere to both

modify the weather and for military communications purposes. The patent

abstract specifically states: " The polymer is dispersed into the cloud and

the wind of the storm agitates the mixture causing the polymer to absorb the

rain. This reaction forms a gelatinous substance which precipitate to the

surface below. Thus, diminishing the cloud's ability to rain. "

Answering the age-old question, Who'll stop the rain?: Apparently our

government and a few of their closest friends in the military

industrial-complex. The emergence of Teller promoting this startling

technology is more than scary. (Teller was the father of the H-Bomb and

grand promoter of Readi Kilowatt, our perky little radiation friend from the

'50s; one of his bright ideas from the '50s was to create harbors by nuking

our own coastline.) The April 24 New York Times reported that Teller " has

promoted the idea of manipulating the Earth's atmosphere to counteract

global warming. " The computer simulations on the use of aluminum oxide to

counter global warming come from the Lawrence Livermore Weapons Laboratory,

where Teller serves as director emeritus.

There should be little doubt that this would be a priority for the

government -- or for for-profit military contractors. While 2001 was the

second-hottest year on record (1998 holds the record as the hottest year),

the nine hottest years on record have occurred since 1990. But why would the

government conduct anti-global warming experiments in secret?

Investigative reporter holds that there's a link between the

recent increase in asthma, allergies and upper respiratory ailments and the

chemtrail spraying. Sound crazy? Remember, it sounded absurd when reports

first came out that the government had conducted radioactivity experiments

on U.S. citizens and released radiation from nuclear plants to test the

effect on civilian populations. It sounded bizarre when news first filtered

out that the government was engaged in the MK-Ultra mind-control experiments

using LSD. The CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency admit they were

responsible for many of the UFO sightings in the 1950s in order the explain

away experimental military technology.

From public documents to mainstream news accounts, the record is filled with

reports of weather-modifying technology left over from the Cold War. Now we

have a right to know what, if anything, the government plans to do with it.