Iran Accuses Israel of Cloud Theft
June 2, 2018
"Joint teams from Israel and one of the neighboring countries make the clouds entering into Iran barren. Moreover, we are faced with the cases of clou [...]
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USDA Sprays Electrified Water Over Texas
July 2017
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wesley C Hoffmann (Clint) from the Aerial Application Technology Research, Agricultural Engineering division used an [...]
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Contrail Cirrus Cloud Seeding and Thinning
January 2015
“Jon Egill Kristjansson told us about the fine line a potential cloud seeder would have to walk by seeding small, homogenous ice nuclei in cirrus clou [...]
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The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies
February 22-26, 2010
In the beginning, I had my doubts. The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, held last week at the Asilomar conferen [...]
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DHS Hurricane Mitigation: Project HURRMIT and HAMP
January 2010
The back-to-back devastating hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 suggested that hurricanes might be a threat to national security, especially as the cl [...]
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Weather Mitigation Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2009
April 16, 2009
This bill was introduced on May 20, 2009, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote. Although this bill was not enacted, its pr [...]
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Chinese Weather Modification at the Beijing Olympics
March 25, 2008
How the Chinese plan to modify the weather in Beijing during the Olympics, using supercomputers and artillery. To prevent rain over the roofless 91,00 [...]
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Department of Homeland Security Hurricane Modification Workshop Report
February 6-7, 2008
In view of these realities, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the organizational assistance of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin [...]
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Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005
June 20, 2005
FAILED: H.R. 2995 (109th): Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005. Rep. Mark Udall (Democrat) It is the purpo [...]
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Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005
March 3, 2005
FAILED: S. 517 (109th): Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005. Sen. Kay Hutchison (Republican). It is the pur [...]
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Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research
October 2003
“Although 40 years have passed since the first NAS report on weather modification, this Committee finds itself very much in concurrence with the findi [...]
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The Weather Damage Modification Program (WDMP)
2002-2005
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has been engaged in weather modification research since the 1960s, although this research declined signif [...]
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Test Technology Symposium 1997: Weather Modification
March 19, 1997
Dr. Arnold A. Barnes Jr. from the USAF Phillips Lab gave a presentation titled “Session B: Advanced Weapon/Instrumentation Technologies.” where he dis [...]
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Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
1995-1996
US Air Force dreams of future weather warfare techniques. 2025 is a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force [...]
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FOIA Reveals U.S. Air Force Paper “Counterforce Weather Control: SPACECAST 2020”
June 1994
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Classified Release Counterforce Weather Control: SPACECAST 2020, Volume II [1]This is our final reply to your Januar [...]
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FOIA Reveals U.S. Navy Weather Modification Program Still Active at China Lake
April 1994
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Classified Release NON-LETHAL WARFARE PROPOSAL TITLE: WEATHER MODIFICATION [1] PROPOSED BY: Code C2741 (Warhead Deve [...]
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FOIA Reveals U.S. Air Force Geophysics Directorate Weather Modification Intentions
1994
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Classified Release TITLE: Weather Modification Using Carbon Black [1] PROPOSED BY: Phillips Laboratory (AFMC), Geoph [...]
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Russian Cloud Seeding Prevents Chernobyl’s Radioactive Rains Reaching Moscow
April 26, 1986
Russia used cloud seeding over Belarus to prevent Moscow from receiving radioactive rainfall (fallout) from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown. In [...]
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Weather may be unnaturally severe because of unnatural modification
March 13, 1979
Admires noted that President Gerald Ford signed an international weather modification act in 1976 and shortly thereafter was able to ski on fresh snow [...]
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Weather Modification: Programs, Problems, Policy, and Potential
May 1978
[FULL DISCLOSURE] Scoping report on all weather modification activities in the USA. This report was required by the Weather Modification Policy Act of [...]
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The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD) Weather Warfare Ban
December 10, 1976 - January 17, 1980
The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques Parties to the Environmental Modificat [...]
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National Weather Modification Policy Act of 1976
October 13, 1976
S. 3383 (94th): National Weather Modification Policy Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of Commerce to develop a national policy on weather mod [...]
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Weather Modification UAV Drones
November 4, 1974
In two flights at Edwards Air Force Base in the Southern California desert. The pilotless plane has flown up to 5 hours and 8 minutes and to altitudes [...]
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Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972
December 18, 1971
Pubic Law 92–205, §1, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 735 [H. R. 6893] [1] CHAPTER 9A-WEATHER MODIFICATION ACTIVITIES OR ATTEMPTS; REPORTING REQUIREMENT §330. [...]
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CIA Project Nile Blue - Rain Embargo on Cuban Sugar Crops
1969-1970
“But the seeding near Cuba was to cause less rain, not more. It was supposed to squeeze rain out of clouds before they reached the island. You might s [...]
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Great Lakes Snow Redistribution Project
1968-1972
The primary objective of the Great Lakes Snow Redistribution Project is to alleviate the heavy snowfalls which annually hamper Buffalo, New York, and [...]
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Operation Popeye, Motorpool, Intermediary, Compatriot: Weather Warfare Over Vietnam
March 20, 1967 - July 5, 1972
Operation Popeye's weather warfare project was conducted from Thailand over Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and was allegedly sponsored by Secretary of St [...]
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A Recommended National Program In Weather Modification
November 7, 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR DR. DONALD F. HORNIG Subject: Weather Modification Program At its meeting of March 29, 1966 the Federal Council asked ICAS to prepare a [...]
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Weather and Climate Modification Reports from 1965-1966
1965-1966
The Honorable Leland J. Haworth Director National Science Foundation Washington, D. C. Dear Dr. Haworth: It is an honor to transmit herewith to the Na [...]
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National Cumulus Modification Project
1963 - 1972
NOAA hurricane mitigation cloud seeding experiments over Carribbean and Florida. The Departement of Commerce's National Oceanic and Amtospheric Admini [...]
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Project Stormfury
August 17, 1962 - 1983
Project Stormfury - the ESSA/Navy hurricane research and modification program - will attempt to seed hurricanes massively and repeatedly, to learn whe [...]
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President Lyndon Johnson Approves Weather Warfare
May 27, 1962 - 1969
“It lays the predicate and foundation for the development of a weather satellite that will permit man to determine the world's cloud layer and ultimat [...]
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President Kennedy United Nations Address On Weather Modification
September 25, 1961
“if the Soviets control space they can control earth, as in past centuries the nation that controlled the seas dominated the continents.” Senator John [...]
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Project Skywater: Atmospheric Water Resources Management
1961 - 1988
“to explore, develop and determine the feasibility of applying the technology of weather modification to meet the Nation’s increasing demand for clean [...]
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National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE)
1959 - 1981
The National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE) is a scientific field program established to answer the question of whether or not man can modify hailsto [...]
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U.S. Navy Creates and Destroys Clouds Using Carbon Black
September 9, 1958
"We dropped carbon black suspended in liquid, over a track a mile long and produced a solid line of clouds one mile long," Dr. Florence Van Straten to [...]
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Project Skyfire: Preventing Forest Fires with Cloud Seeding
1956 - 1967
The Project Skyfire cloud-seeding generator is designed to produce silver iodide nuclei for experiments performed in devising techniques for lightning [...]
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Cloud Seeding Projects in the USA (1952-1965)
1952-1965
Randomized experimentation in weather modification is like the weather itself: many people talk about it, but few actually do it. In the 17 years sinc [...]
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Irving P. Krick's Ground-based Cloud Seeder
December 1949
In December 1949 Krick suggested cloud seeding without resorting to airborne devices; his proposal employed ground-based smoke generators dispersing v [...]
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Project Cirrus, First Hurricane Cloud Seeding Experiment
October 13, 1947
The energy expended by a tropical hurricane is enough to drive all the machinery in the world for three or four years. Yet the Army, the Navy and Gene [...]
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Vincent Schaefer, Irving Langmuir, and Bernard Vonnegut invent Cloud Seeding
November 13, 1946
Vincent Schaefer (1906–1993) discovered the principle of cloud seeding in July 1946 through a series of serendipitous events. Following ideas generate [...]
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