File:Owning the Weather.pdf

An official document of the US Air Force dealing with research and development of weather modification programs on a 25 year view. Its publication coincided with the start of an upsurge in public awareness and disquiet about 'Chemtrails'

 paper  by Col Tamzy J. House, James B. Near Jr., Lt Col William B. Shields, Ronald J. Celentano, David M. Husband, Ann E. Mercer, James E. Pugh dated 1996/08

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Subjects: Weather Modification, Geoengineering, US military
Source: US Air Force (Link)

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Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025

Executive Summary

In 2025, US aerospace forces can “own the weather” by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather-modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map.

A high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary.

Technology advancements in five major areas are necessary for an integrated weather-modification capability:

1. advanced nonlinear modeling techniques,
2. computational capability,
3. information gathering and transmission,
4. a global sensor array, and
5. weather intervention techniques. Some intervention tools exist today and others may be developed and refined in the future...