Prior to the
Geneva Convention, the
United States used weather warfare in the
Vietnam War. Under the auspices of the
Air Weather Service, the United States'
Operation Popeye used
cloud seeding over the
Ho Chi Minh trail,
increasing rainfall by an estimated thirty percent during 1967 and
1968. It was hoped that the increased rainfall would reduce the rate of
infiltration down the trail.
[2]
With much less success, the United States also dropped
salt on the airbase during the siege of
Khe Sanh in an attempt to reduce the fog that hindered air operations.
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A research paper produced for the
United States Air Force written in 1996 speculates about the future use of
nanotechnology
to produce "artificial weather", clouds of microscopic computer
particle all communicating with each other to form an intelligent fog
that could be used for various purposes. "Artificial weather
technologies do not currently exist. But as they are developed, the
importance of their potential applications rises rapidly." Weather
modification technologies are described in an unclassified academic
paper written by airforce officer-cadet students as "a force multiplier
with tremendous power that could be exploited across the full spectrum
of war-fighting environments."
[3]
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If you look at weather warfare like Cyber warfare that is being conducted every day by criminals of various countries (who might be being paid by those governments or others), there is nothing to stop people like this from conducting nanobot based weather warfare against any and all nations at any time past, present or future.
So, I suppose this is another potential way to look at storms like Hurricane Sandy and others in the U.S. and all around the world.
If you are a large and powerful nation like China and want to decrease hostility of a surrounding nation or the U.S. itself you would use Cyber and Weather warfare despite any Geneva agreements to that end. Also, Russia and China are now more economically aligned through oil and politically than they have ever been since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Of the two, China is the more economically powerful now because the collapse of the Soviet Union caused so many Soviet States to leave the new Russia which is much smaller territorially than it used to be as the Soviet Union.
IF China doesn't care about international law so much that they steal other countries islands and make atolls turn into islands by pumping up sand and coral to the surface and building them with Chinese military ships placed there against the will of those nations, then China would have no problem doing almost anything that would be difficult to prove to expand their economic and military reach. For them, it's not about having a direct bloody war, it's about doing whatever they want to like a bully at this point to the world.
In some ways their stance reminds me a little of the bluster of the U.S. from World War I until the present worldwide. So, in one sense they are emulating the U.S. but aren't making friends like the U.S. did along the way so much because they are stealing the possessions of other countries.
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