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The story of the top-secret project—flown by the Air Force but controlled by the CIA and the White House—was broken in 1971 in Jack Anderson's national newspaper column, then, to greater fanfare, in July 1972, with Hersh's front-page story in The New York Times. The White House and the State Department declined comment, and one unnamed official said, "This is one of those things where no one is going to say anything."(People said even less about CIA weather-modification in Cuba. During 1969 and 1970, planes from China Lake seeded clouds that rained over non-agricultural regions of Cuba, leaving at least some of the country's sugar cane fields dry.)
US military used weather modification in Vietnam in the 1960's and 1970's
A classified rainmaking program was conducted in South East Asia from 1967 to 1972 which employed air dropped silver and lead oxide seeding units to increase normal monsoon rainfall.
The purpose was to make it difficult for North Vietnamese infiltration through the Laotian panhandle and plain Des Jarres.
The program was successful in breaking lines of communication in the primitive roading conditions of the time.
The study said that the nature of the program meant that it was still considered Top Secret well after other documents of the time were declassified.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Bill_S517
109th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 517
To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 3, 2005
Mrs. HUTCHISON introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005'.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this Act to develop and implement a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy and a national cooperative Federal and State program of weather modification research and development.
http://ams.confex.com/ams/annual2003/techprogram/paper_56687.htm
Global Environmental MEMS Sensors (GEMS): A Revolutionary Observing System for the 21st Century
John Manobianco, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. L. Case, R. J. Evans, D. A. Short, and K. S. J. Pister
Technological advancements in MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) have inspired ENSCO, Inc. to propose a revolutionary observing system called Global Environmental MEMS Sensors (GEMS). The GEMS concept features in situ, micron-scale airborne probes that can measure atmospheric variables over all regions of the Earth with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Meteorological observations from a GEMS network have the potential to provide a quantum leap in our understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere and improve weather forecast accuracy well beyond current capability. In addition to gathering meteorological data, probes could be used for environmental monitoring of particulate emissions, organic and inorganic pollutants, ozone, carbon dioxide, and chemical, biological, or nuclear contaminants. Once the probes settle out of the atmosphere, they could continue making measurements over land or water.
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts awarded ENSCO a Phase I grant in May 2001 to validate the viability of GEMS and define the major feasibility issues for the meteorological and MEMS disciplines necessary for system design and development. Our objective is to design an integrated system of probes that measure atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind velocity (based on changes in probe position) as they are carried by atmospheric currents. Each probe will be self-contained with a power source to provide sensing, navigation, and communication functions. The probes will communicate with each other and remote receiving platforms to form a mobile, in situ network.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051031_mystery_monday.html
Thunderbolts on demand
What would a military strategist gain in having an "on-switch" to the weather?
Clearly, it offers the ability to degrade the effectiveness of enemy forces. That could come from flooding an opponent’s encampment or airfield to generating downright downpours that disrupt enemy troop comfort levels. On the flipside, sparking a drought that cuts off fresh water can stir up morale problems for warfighting foes.
Even fooling around with fog and clouds can deny or create concealment – whichever weather manipulation does the needed job.
In this regard, nanotechnology could be utilized to create clouds of tiny smart particles. Atmospherically buoyant, these ultra-small computer particles could navigate themselves to block optical sensors. Alternatively, they might be used to provide an atmospheric electrical potential difference -- a way to precisely aim and time lightning strikes over the enemy’s head – thereby concoct thunderbolts on demand.
Perhaps that’s too far out for some. But some blue sky thinkers have already looked into these and other scenarios in "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025" – a research paper written by a seven person team of military officers and presented in 1996 as part of a larger study dubbed Air Force 2025.
Global stresses
That report came with requisite disclaimers, such as the views expressed were those of the authors and didn’t reflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or the United States government. Furthermore, the report was flagged as containing fictional representations of future situations and scenarios.
On the other hand, Air Force 2025 was a study that complied with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force "to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future."
"Current technologies that will mature over the next 30 years will offer anyone who has the necessary resources the ability to modify weather patterns and their corresponding effects, at least on the local scale," the authors of the report explained. "Current demographic, economic, and environmental trends will create global stresses that provide the impetus necessary for many countries or groups to turn this weather-modification ability into a capability."
http://science.howstuffworks.com/cloud-seeding.htm
The Chinese government believes launching shells containing
silver iodide pellets into clouds will curb rainfall and smog,
ensuring clear skies for the 2008 Summer Olympics
opening ceremonies in Beijing.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/harnessing_weather.html
The article recounts an offer by the Russians to aid Malaysia to create a typhoon to dissipate a pall of smoke that hung over the country—and still does—caused by the burning of large sections of the rain forests in Indonesia and Sumatra.
To quote from the article: Datuk Law Hieng Ding, Malaysia’s minister for science, technology and the environment at the time, said his country “would use special technology to create an artificial cyclone to clean the air.”
The article went on to say that a Malaysian company, BicCure Sdn. Bhd., would sign a memorandum of understanding with a government-owned Russian company to create a cyclone that would cause torrential rains and thus cleanse the air over Malaysia of the smoke and ash.
What Russian company was the Malaysian official talking about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_control