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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalvinder45" data-source="post: 225864" data-attributes="member: 26009">Weaponizing Weather Modifications through NanotechnologyCol Dr Grewal DSPublished on: 2024-02-03AbstractAccording to a 1996 research paper written for the US Air Force, nanotechnology may one day be used to create "artificial weather" consisting of clouds of tiny computer particles that communicate with one another to create an "intelligent fog" that could be employed for a variety of reasons.KeywordsWeaponizing; Nanotechnology; ModificationIntroductionAccording to a 1996 research paper written for the US Air Force, nanotechnology may one day be used to create "artificial weather" consisting of clouds of tiny computer particles that communicate with one another to create an "intelligent fog" that could be employed for a variety of reasons [1].Recently, while in Saudi Arabia, I was told that this country could get rain when it was too hot or dry. I saw this happening too. This is what weather modification is. It may be cloud seeding, which increases rain or snow, usually for the purpose of increasing the local water supply. It may control hurricanes; it may create snowstorms and the like [2].In fact, weather modification is the act of intentionally manipulating or altering the weather, while weaponizing weather modification is the use of weather against the enemy by modifying it. The most common form of weather modification now in use is cloud seeding, which increases rain or snow, usually for the purpose of increasing the local water supply [3]. Weather modification can also have the goal of preventing damaging weather, such as hail or hurricanes, from occurring or of provoking damaging weather against the enemy, as a tactic of military or economic warfare like Operation Popeye, where clouds were seeded to prolong the monsoon in Vietnam. Under a top-secret program called “Operation Popeye," the US military attempted to weaponize weather by increasing rainfall over key enemy locations by dropping “seeding units” composed of silver iodide and lead iodide to “increase normal monsoon rainfall" [4] As per a report by Maxwell AFB Air War College, in 2025, US aerospace forces can own the weather by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing the development of those technologies on warfighting applications [5].A number of nations have initiated cloud seeding initiatives in an effort to modify precipitation trends. Each Chinese city has a local cloud-seeding plan that is carried out by researchers and authorities working with the military. The Yangtze River basin received "8.56 billion metric tons of additional rainfall" between June and November 2022 as a result of the seeding conducted by 241 aircraft flights and 15,000 rocket launches, according to the People's Daily [6].Other nations developing the technique include the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, and Mexico. Numerous nations have initiatives aimed at achieving different goals, such as lessening the effect of drought on farming, ensuring the availability of potable water, combating forest fires, and preserving and repairing ecosystems. Cloud seeding is done in roughly 20 departments in France [7]. These techniques are of disputed effectiveness and have become a source of tension between certain countries.Use of Weather Modification in WarfarePrior to the Environmental Modification Convention signed in Geneva in 1977, the United States used weather warfare in the Vietnam War. Over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, cloud seeding was used in Operation Popeye by the USA. It was hoped that the increased rainfall would reduce the rate of infiltration down the trail [8]. The Indian Defense Minister recently reported that weather modification is being used as a warfare tool and cited heavy rains, floods, earthquakes, and snowstorms as being used as a warfare tool [9].Nanotechnology in Weather ModificationThe US military used silver iodide, but using nanotechnology, salt particles coated with a thin layer of titanium dioxide would form 2.5 times more water droplets compared to silver iodide, which would further enhance precipitation. A liquid permeable capsule shell is supplied with a hygroscopic chemical agent to be used in cloud or fog seeding, allowing for the optimization of particle size for better seeding outcomes.When using hygroscopic chemical compounds that are fragile, brittle, or friable in crystalline structure, a fog and cloud seeding method and agent that uses microencapsulation techniques allows for controlled seeding particle size for both dry particles and particles dispensed as [9] solution droplets, allowing for the production and maintenance of a predetermined particle spectrum. A liquid-permeable capsule shell is supplied with a hygroscopic chemical agent for use in cloud or fog seeding, allowing for the optimization of particle size [10]. More research is needed for nanotechnology to help use nanoparticles for weather modifications.ReferencesHouse TJ, Near JB, et al. Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025. Maxwell AFB Air War College. 1996. 2024.Gelt J. "Weather Modification: A Water Resource Strategy to be Researched, Tested before Tried". University of Arizona. Archived from the original on 1997. 2012.House TJ, Near JB, et al. Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025, Maxwell AFB Air War College:<a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2023/08/14/make-it-rain-cloud-seeding-the-controversial-weather-modification-technique_6093144_114.html" target="_blank">Wei L. Make it rain: Cloud seeding, the controversial weather modification technique. 2023.</a>Transcript of the US Senate Hearing on Weather Modification of March 20, 1974.<a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US3659785A/en" target="_blank">Weather modification utilizing microencapsulated material.The Tribune, Chandigath. 2024.</a></blockquote>

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