[Peace-discuss] hard evidence on US military attempts at weather modification

[Margaret E. Kosal]

The Sunshine Project recently obtained a copy of a US Navy proposal to 
develop new weather modification weapons to impede movement by floods or 
blizzards & to disrupt enemies' economy by "floods, droughts, etc." via the 
Freedom of Information Act (after 18 months of delays).

http://www.sunshine-project.org/enmod/enmodprop.pdf

It is a short proposal from the US Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons 
Division (China Lake, CA) to the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate for 
funding to explore weather modification weapons. There's no date on the 
paper; but the JNLWD says it is from 1 April 1994. (April Fools Day, how 
appropriate.)

As some here probably know better than i, China Lake has a past with this 
sort of thing. From China Lake technology and people Operation Popeye 
emanated, the 1960's US cloud seeding operation over Southeast Asia.

For more info on ENMOD - "The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or 
Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) 
prohibits using the environment as a weapon in conflicts" see 
http://www.sunshine-project.org/ & click on "ENMOD" ( or directly: 
http://www.sunshine-project.org/enmod/).

As a pseudo-aside, i took notice of the short length of the proposal - the 
last proposal (NIH) that i submitted was 183 pages!

Namaste,
Margaret


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