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Weather warfare is the use of weather modification techniques such as cloud seeding for military purposes.
A meteorologist has warned of potential "weather wars" between countries if cloud seeding gets out of hand. The comments follow torrential rain in Dubai, the UAE, which caused extreme flooding.
It opened for signature on 18 May 1977 in Geneva and entered into force on 5 October 1978. The Convention bans weather warfare, which is the use of weather modification techniques for the purposes of inducing damage or destruction.
An ice-locked river grants troops a shortcut to victory; a mantle of fog foils an aggressor's advance; an undetected dust storm pummels a covert helicopter raid, leading to a fiery, tragic end deep...
“Rainmaking” or weather control can be as powerful a war weapon as the atom bomb, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist said today.
Operation Popeye was a secret Vietnam War-era effort to conduct covert cloud seeding over Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, extend the monsoon season, and give the United States an advantage in the...
Technologies that could block the sun's rays or siphon huge amounts of carbon from the air are not that far out of reach, a recent RAND analysis found. They could have world-altering consequences that would make a snowstorm in Beijing look mild by comparison.
China, which already artificially alters its weather over major cities, plans to be able to modify weather over half its territory by 2025, to the alarm of neighbours including India. And two Middle East rivals – the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia – are scaling up rain-making operations.
As the impacts of climate-related changes in weather patterns intensify, the incentives to turn to technological fixes will increase in affected areas. Think of governments trying to manage simultaneous declines in rainfall and increases in water demand.
Throughout history, humans have been plagued by war and inclement weather. Occasionally the two forces interact, leading to unexpected and seemingly miraculous events. Here are seven times war was affected by the weather.