While not directly related to my book research, I stumbled upon the following statement in a 1994 "Non Lethal Warfare Proposal" declassified and released by the Navy in 2008:
I did some further digging and found that the US Senate investigated the matter during Top Secret hearings in 1974.
Today's document is the United States Senate Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations on the Need for an International Agreement Prohibiting the Use of Environmental and Geophysical Modification as Weapons of War and Briefing on Department of Defense Weather Modification Activity, January 25 and March 20, 1974.
Today's document is the United States Senate Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations on the Need for an International Agreement Prohibiting the Use of Environmental and Geophysical Modification as Weapons of War and Briefing on Department of Defense Weather Modification Activity, January 25 and March 20, 1974.
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And since this is the inaugural "Document Dump", I decided to make it a double shot. Here's the 1976 UN Weather Weapons Treaty (opened for signature at Geneva on 18 May 1977):
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Although the treaty specifically outlined that "Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party", the following statement appears in a 1996 research paper for the Air Force, titled "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025":
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