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Environmental Warfare and US Foreign Policy:

The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction

by Scott Gilbert

January 2004
www.globalresearch.ca   January 2004

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Environmental warfare may sound new to some, but it has been
researched extensively in military circles for years. The first
public description of weather modification techniques as a weapon of
war was made on 20 March, 1974. At that time the Pentagon revealed a
seven-year cloud seeding effort in Vietnam and Cambodia, costing
$21.6 million. The objective was to increase rainfall in target
areas, thereby causing landslides and making unpaved roads muddy,
hindering the movement of supplies. (1) But interest in the
exploitation of the environment for military purposes did not end
there.

Air University, located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama,
describes itself as a "center for advanced education" that "plays a
vital role in fulfilling the mission of the United States Air Force"
and whose "service members must place the nation's defense above
self." The Chief of Staff of the US Air Force tasked Air University
to "look 30 years into the future to identify the concepts,
capabilities and technologies the United States will require to
remain the dominant air and space force in the 21st century." The
study, completed in 1996, was titled Air Force 2025. One component
was of the study was a paper titled Weather as a Force Multiplier:
Owning the Weather in 2025. It is a chilling document. It is evident
that the authors regard our environment as nothing more than a
resource to be exploited for military purposes. They claim that by
2025 US forces can "own the weather" by "capitalizing on emerging
technologies and focusing development of those technologies to
warfighting applications." The authors describe weather modification
as having "tremendous military capabilities" which "can provide
battlespace dominance to a degree never before imagined," claiming
the project would be "not unlike the splitting of the atom." The
paper goes on to discuss how ionospheric research (The ionosphere is
a region of the earth's atmosphere ranging from about 30 - 1200 miles
above the surface of the earth.) is necessary to achieve goals in
both enhancing US communication capabilities and as a method of
disabling enemy communications. "By 2025, it may be possible to
modify the ionosphere and near space, creating a variety of potential
applications." (2)

Dr. Bernard Eastlund, while working as a consultant for Advanced
Power Technologies Inc. (APTI) in the 1980s, patented devices that
are described 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
"
(3) These patents were based on the ideas and fundamental research of
Nicola Tesla (many of his ideas were stolen by US corporations). Some
of Eastlund's patents were temporarily sealed under a US Secrecy
Order. APTI and Eastlund's patents were quickly purchased by
E-Systems, a company that is home to many retired and currently
employed CIA agents. In 1993 E-Systems received $1.8 billion in
classified contracts. Raytheon, the fourth largest US defense
contractor and third largest aerospace company, currently holds the
patents. (4)

In light of the above, it is significant to know that since the early
1990s the US Air Force has been sponsoring the world's largest
ionospheric modification project called HAARP (High-frequency Active
Auroral Research Program). HAARP, located in the remote bush country
of Gakona, Alaska, is a small version of the antenna discussed in the
Eastlund patents. APTI initially won the contract to build HAARP.
Eastlund feels that the current version of HAARP, although the
largest ionospheric heater ever built, is not yet powerful enough to
bring the ideas in his patents to fruition, "But," he says, "they're
getting up there. This is a very powerful device. Especially if they
go to the expanded stage." (5) What they have done to date is
definitely a necessary first step in the overall objective. Eastlund
says, "The military was interested [in his patents] because, in the
event of a Russian nuclear attack on the United States, an Alaskan
site would be under the path of the incoming warheads."(6) HAARP is
currently a part of the ongoing Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI),
popularly known as "Star Wars". (7)

A 1990 internal document obtained by Popular Science describes
applications of the HAARP project as "Creating a "full global shield"
that would destroy ballistic missiles by overheating their electronic
guiding systems as they fly" and for "manipulating local weather."
(8) The word "local" was used because some 150 international treaties
prohibit "weather warfare". (5) However, Pravda reported: "the works
continued anyway, despite the signed document. It was simply
conducted under the disguise of scientific research or the
development of double-purpose technology." (9)

HAARP is presented as a harmless scientific project, but The
Washington Post reported that a growing number of physicists and
others in the scientific community are becoming increasingly
skeptical. A "small group of American physicists, some of whom have
aired complaints in scientific journals
fear HAARP may not simply be
the benign research experiment advocates describe, but possibly phase
one of a secret US military program that could be seeking ways to
blow other countries' spacecraft out of the sky or disrupt
communications over large portions of the planet." (6) Richard
Williams, a physicist and consultant to the David Sarnoff laboratory
in Princeton alleges HAARP 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." (6)

In 2002 the website globalresearch.ca reported that the Russian State
Duma's International Affairs and Defence Committee expressed concern
that "Under the HAARP program the USA is creating new integral
geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with
high-frequency radio waves
the significance of this qualitative leap
could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or

>from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons." The deputies demanded

an international ban on large-scale geophysical experiments of this
sort and sent the appeal to President Vladimir Putin, news outlets,
scientific groups, the UN and others. The article went on to say that
the HAARP program "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." (10)

Dr. Nicholas Begich, co-author of the book Angels Don't Play This
HAARP, depicts HAARP as "a super-powerful radio wave beaming
technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam on
them and then heating them. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back
onto earth and penetrate everything - living and dead." This ability
allows for better communication with submarines and wide-area
Earth-penetrating tomography (similar to radar) that can be used to
locate underground missile sites, bunkers and oil reserves. Through
his research he has come to the conclusion that HAARP has the
potential to jam global communication systems, change weather
patterns over large areas, interfere with wildlife migration patterns
and negatively affect human health. It is also capable of potentially
triggering targeted floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. (11)

Dr. Rosalie Bertell, author of Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War
and founder of the International Institute of Concern for Public
Health, while writing on the background of HAARP says, "It would be
rash to assume that HAARP is an isolated experiment which would not
be expanded. It is related to fifty years of intensive and
increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper
atmosphere
It would be rash not to associate HAARP with the space
laboratory construction which is separately being planned by the
United States
The ability of the HAARP/Spacelab/rocket combination to
deliver very large amount 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." (12)

Michel Chossudovsky, professor of economics at the University of
Ottawa and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization, says
that "there are very clear statements by the US Air Force to the
effect that weather modification technology is available, HAARP is
fully operational and could be used in actually military situations.
It is evident weather warfare does constitute an instrument of the
Air Force, they even identify the scenarios of its use." He said his
interest in the topic was sparked by the fact that it is possible to
change climate and disrupt electricity over large areas of the Earth,
effectively destabilizing portions of the globe and paralysing
national economies. This can be done without the enemy even knowing
the source of it. The health and economic prosperity of entire
regions could potentially be devastated through climatic
manipulations without the deployment of a single troop or the firing
of any munitions. It is naove to assume that those who ordered the
development of the nuclear bomb would not want total control over
this technology. Chossudovsky says HAARP can act as a "weapon of mass
destruction" because it can destroy industry, infrastructure,
agriculture and cause loss of life. He questions whether HAARP should
be used at all since it has "global and environmental implications"
and because it affects the electromagnetic field of the Earth. (13)

In September 2003 the website globalresearch.ca reported that a
scientist who works in ionospheric research expressed concern that
the 14 August, 2003 blackout might have been "a secret government
test" that served multiple purposes including "fulfilling
requirements for sophisticated warfare and security response." The
author poses the question: Could a secret HAARP experiment have
caused the blackout? This article was based on a number of facts that
seemed oddly coincidental given the circumstances. For example, the
power went out a few minutes after the closing bell on Wall Street
and a few minutes after HAARP was turned on that day. The power grid
that was affected was not the vulnerable California grid. The data
that would show where the effects of HAARP were directed, by
providing a picture of the ionosphere, were not posted on the day of
the blackout. He also commented on the possibility that the HAARP
heaters were directed at the power grid's bottleneck while the grid
was operating near full power. "The sudden presence of
electromagnetic energy could easily force an unexpected increase in
the power flow which could in-turn cause a critical failure such as
the one seen on August 14, 2003
The only requirement to achieve
geographic precision is that geomagnetic activity be minimal such as
it was on the day of the blackout." There was also a short test
conducted shortly before 4pm. The author says such a test would serve
the purpose of "showing the researchers exactly where the beam would
focus itself given the current conditions, and would be a necessary
step before executing such an experiment." The author describes how
experiments of this sort would be an "ideal way to test possible
military applications of the instrument
of course, this would need to
be tested in a controlled environment where the effects could be
thoroughly analyzed (such as on our own soil)
this was an excellent
homeland security response test." He concludes by saying "Although it
may sound like an episode of the X-files, the facts are clear; HAARP
is an ionospheric warfare tool, it is capable of focusing it's
electromagnetic energy at long distances, it was turned on right at
the time the event began, and such a scenario would serve multiple
national security interests simultaneously with minimal economic
impact." (14) Michel Chossudovsky, by conferring with other
well-known scientists, was able to conclude, "this man knows the
facts. He can read and analyse scientific data and is well informed
on the impact of the HAARP program." Although the article does not
amount to proof, Chossudovsky feels that the author's statements
should be taken seriously and investigated. (13, 14)

The HAARP program was scheduled for completion in 2002 and full-scale
testing had started by early 2003. While there is currently no
conclusive proof that HAARP has ever been used for weather
manipulation, there have been numerous reports describing very
unusual weather and environmental conditions throughout the world in
recent years. In January 2003 Yuru Solomatin, secretary of the
Ukrainian Committee for Economic Policy, writing in Pravda reported
"A lot of specialists and scientists believe that unpredictable
natural disasters and several 
catastrophes that struck Europe and
Asia in the summer of 2002 might have certain global reasons that
caused them all." He posits "a possibility of secret geophysical
weapon tests. Those tests were either secret or unauthorized
[Many]
specialists and scientists believe that a special American program
HAARP is one of those developments."(9) Chossudovsky says, "Even
though we do not have clear-cut information on particular climatic
occurrences, when there are very unusual weather patters that are
occurring, which cannot be explained by greenhouse gas emissions, we
cannot exclude the possibility of man-made climatic manipulations,
based on our understanding of climate." (13)

A primary objection to weather modification for military purposes is
that its use is indiscriminant and civilians will inevitably be
affected. Furthermore, the research necessary to achieve these goals
is dangerous. According to Bertell, HAARP can make "long incisions in
the protective layer of the Earth's atmosphere."(7) As with the
Manhattan project, scientists working on this massive military
project simply are not able to determine for certain whether or not
their activities will cause irreparable damage. Nor do they seem to
care. In 1971 Science published an article titled Modifying the
Ionosphere with Intense Radio Waves in which the authors describe the
development of radio wave beaming technology for ionospheric
modification that has long been "a desire for researchers." This new
technology now allows them to conduct research without the
"associated complications" of a laboratory. They now have a "plasma
laboratory in the sky." (15)

There is a dire need for this technology to be closely monitored by
multiple independent scientific bodies (it currently is not) and, if
it must be used, needs to be used in such a way as to be beneficial
to life on earth. It could be used to increase food supply, repair
the ozone layer or reduce damage to civilian populations frequently
affected by adverse weather conditions. Sadly, current military
agendas appear not to give much weight to these possible beneficial
uses of the technology.
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Notes

1 - Science, "Weather Warfare: Pentagon Cencedes 7-Year Vietnam
Effort," Deborah Shapley, June 7, 1974.

2 - >From the Air University website: Air Force 2025 study -
http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025 Document - "Weather as a Force
Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025" -
http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm

3 - >From the book Angels Don't Play This HAARP. See book review by
Winn Schwartau - http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/12/HAARP.htm

Also see chapter on Eastlund patents in Angels Don't Play This HAARP
by Nick Begich and Jeane Manning, 1995 Earthpulse press.

4 - Corporate Watch website - Raytheon
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/profiles/raytheon/raytheon.htm

5 - E, The Environmental Magazine, "Discordant HAARP," Tracey C.
Rembert, January 1997 -
http://www.emagazine.com/january-february_1997/0197currhaarp.html

6 - The Washington Post, "Pentagon Fights Secret Scenario Speculation
Over Alaska Antennas" John Mintz, April 17, 1995, pA3.

7 - Northumbria University website (UK), "Natural Disasters and
Meteorological War?" by Vera Vratusa -
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/geography_research/dscrn/newsletter/newslette
r6/vratusa.htm

8 - Popular Science magazine cover story, "Mystery in Alaska," Mark
Farmer, September 1995.

9 - Pravda, "HAARP Poses Global Threat, " Yuru Solomatin, January 15,
2003 - http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/01/15/42068.html

10 - Centre for Research on Globalisation website, "US HAARP Weapon:
US Could Dominate The Planet If It Deploys This Weapon In Space," 10
August2002 -http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/INT208A.html

11 - Angels Don't Play This HAARP, Nick Begich and Jeane Manning,
1995 Earthpulse press - www.earthpulse.com

12 - Earthpulse press website, Background of the HAARP Project,
Rosalie Bertell, 1999 -
http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/background.html

13 - Telephone interview with Michel Chossudovsky, January 17, 2004.

14 - Centre for Research on Globalisation website, "Did a Secret
Military Experiment Cause the 2003 Blackout?" 7 September 2003 -
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ANA309A.html

15 - Science, "Modifying the Ionosphere with intense radio waves,"
October 15, 1971, p245.

For this article I had a telephone interview with Dr. Michel
Chossudovsky about his research on HAARP. I also spoke with Dr.
Eastlund (by telephone) about his patents.

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Scott Gilbert is a student majoring in Environmental Engineering at
the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. This article was written
for the Student Newspaper at Guelph University.

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