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excerpted from:
http://www.viewzone.com/haarp00.html
WEAPONS OF TOTAL DESTRUCTION
by Dan Edan
The US military was not the only investigator of "ionospheric heaters." The
Russians conducted their own research with similar systems, based on
Eastlund's technology. Other heaters also conducted research in Norway,
Brazil and Puerto Rico. Russian "bigger is better" programs, however,
beamed huge amounts of electromagnetic power at the ionosphere,
successfully bouncing volleys of electromagnetic energy back to the Earth's
surface. At these higher power levels, the heated ionosphere acted like a
powerful battery, storing, amplifying and discharging destructive beams of
energy that could devastate a distant target on demand, in seconds. At that
time, the Russians (USSR) lacked the powerful computing facilities that
were required to direct and control this energy beam.
To be precise, calculations for bouncing these energy beams must take
into account the rotation of the Earth, the angle of reflectance, and a variety
of complex, dynamic factors. The US had the power of CRAY and EMASS
computer systems, but lacked the power output capabilities of the Russian
heaters. HAARP would change that.
In 1995, the US military sought congressional funding for a "super-heater,"
a world class HAARP installation that would be capable of exceeding the
Russian power outputs many times over. But there was a snag. The
American public had been told that the Star Wars program was a
"defensive" weapon. President Regan had even offered to share this
technology with other countries to establish a "shield of peace" that would
forever inhibit nuclear proliferation. But would the American public fund a
"death ray" which could deliver "first strike" capabilities to any point on the
globe within seconds? Even the military doubted that this would be an easy
sale.
At first, the military attempted to describe the HAARP as a substitute for
the controversial ELF (low frequency) transmitters. Eastlund's research had
demonstrated that the heated "lens" could generate and reflect ELF radio
signals if the applied HF power source was pulsed. The large ELF antenna
systems in Wisconsin and Michigan could be replaced by the smaller,
more efficient HAARP arrays.
Since their installation in America's dairyland, ELF signals were becoming
a sensitive topic. Research was showing that ELF radiation was extremely
harmful. Dr. Cletus Kanavy, chief of the biological effects group of the
Phillips Laboratory's Electromagnetic Effects Division at Kirkland Air Force
Base in New Mexico, stated that "the entire issue of human interaction with
electromagnetic (RF & microwave) radiation is... a major national
population health concern." (Biological Effects of Microwave Radiation: A
White Paper, Microwave News at 12, September/October 1993).
Dr. Kanavy noted the "large amount of data, both animal experimental and
human clinical, to support the existence of chronic, non-thermal effects."
These effects include behavioral aberrations, neural network perturbations,
fetal (embryonic) tissue damage (inducing birth defects), cataractogenesis
(cataracts), altered blood chemistry, metabolic changes and suppression
of the endocrine and immune systems. There were also cases of sudden
and unexplained mutations in frogs and wildlife in the radiation paths of
ELF installations. It was only a matter of time before the public outcry would
prohibit ELF transmitters.
(see Superimposing Spatially Coherent Electromagnetic Noise Inhibits
Field Induced Abnormalities In Chick Embryos, Journal
Bioelectromagnetics, Vol. 15, No.2 at 105-113, 1994; Adey, Whispering
Between Cells: Electromagnetic Fields And Regulatory Mechanisms In
Tissue, Frontier Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1993; Smith, Best,
Electromagnetic Man, Chapter 10, St. Martin's Press, N.Y. 1989; "Effects
of Electromagnetic Fields" in Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 51:140 at
410-411, 1993))
Someone in Congress realized the public safety implications of ELF
waves-- even if they were to be generated by HAARP. The funding for
HAARP was delayed while the Pentagon quickly assured the
congressional committees that the ELF programs would be scuttled and
replaced by HAARP's "high frequencies" which were, after all, "harmless."
Congress thereby appropriated 16 million dollars for HAARP's initial
expansion. But was the HAARP really doing away with ELF radiation? Not
at all.(see 104th Congress, 1st session, Report 104-24 at 190, July 28,
1995)
The military's own Executive Summary of the HAARP program clearly
states their reliance on ELF waves. Instead of transmitting these waves
from ground based transmitters, HAARP created these waves through the
use of "pulse" transmissions of their HF energy beams. Or, to put it another
way, HAARP duplicated the ELF signals by turning their signal on and off at
rates (30 to 3000 cycles per second) within the ELF range. The result was
that ELF radiation could be directed to a sp
